{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"ec467f437cfb2344caa82aa4","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ec467f437cfb2344caa82aa4","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ec467f437cfb2344caa82aa4","title":"Staff Backend Software Engineer, Developer Productivity Engineering","description":"Software EngineeringMountain View, CA (HQ)\n\nAbout Tapestry\n\nTapestry is a group within Google working to build the AI-powered electric grid. We are tackling one of the world’s most important infrastructure challenges: helping the energy system become more visible, understandable, reliable, affordable, abundant, and clean.\n\nOriginally born at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory, Tapestry brings together experts in energy, AI, software engineering, and products to build tools that help the electricity ecosystem plan smarter, move faster, and operate more efficiently.\n\nThis is a global effort. Tapestry supports partners across the U.S., U.K., Chile, New Zealand, Australia, and Brazil as they work toward a cleaner, more resilient energy future.\n\nJoining Tapestry means doing high-impact work with a multidisciplinary team tackling a problem that matters at global scale. Learn more about our team and our mission here.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nWe are seeking a Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead to co-anchor the technical direction, systems architecture, and engineering standards for our Infrastructure and Developer Productivity team.\n\nIn this role, you will partner alongside leadership to set our multi-year platform roadmap. Our systems must process massive amounts of power-grid data, run heavy scientific simulations, and support emerging AI workflows. You will treat our internal infrastructure as a product. Building reliable, self-service tools for our developers, automating our delivery pipelines, and creating secure environments where engineers and automated agents can build and test software quickly and safely.\n\nHow You Will Make 10X Impact\nCore Cloud & Compute Platform: Architect and operate scalable, multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Ensure efficient compute scheduling and autoscaling across mixed hardware workloads (CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs) supporting simulation and machine learning models. Design resilient networking, IAM boundaries, and secure multi-project cloud environments.\nDeveloper Velocity & CI/CD: Design fast, hermetic, and automated build, test, and release pipelines that reduce cycle times for product engineers. Provide reliable, on-demand testing environments so teams can validate changes safely before production. Build automated deployment and rollback mechanisms with clear canary verification.\nInfrastructure as Code & Security: Drive declarative, reproducible cloud infrastructure using modern Infrastructure-as-Code (such as Terraform). Implement automated policy checks, secret management, and container vulnerability scanning into standard deployment workflows.\nAI Tooling & Execution Sandboxes: Design secure, isolated sandbox environments that allow automated AI tools and agents to safely run tests and inspect code. Identify high-leverage opportunities to automate repetitive developer workflows using modern AI tools.\nTechnical Co-Leadership & Mentorship: Partner with the team to split architectural ownership, guide system designs, and run engineering design reviews. Mentor mid-level and senior engineers (L4/L5), raising the technical bar for code reviews, testing, and system design.\nReliability & Observability: Define team-wide standards for metrics, logs, and distributed tracing to ensure high visibility into production health. Partner with data and ML teams to establish SLAs/SLOs, lead disaster recovery exercises, and run blameless post-mortems.\nWhat You Should Have\nTechnical Breadth & Depth: 8+ years of production experience in Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Developer Productivity/Platform Engineering.\nTechnical Leadership: 2+ years serving as a formal Tech Lead or Staff Engineer directing the technical roadmap, architectural designs, and execution for a multi-pod or multi-team engineering surface.\nModern Cloud & Orchestration: Advanced production-grade expertise with Kubernetes (GKE), container networking, and multi-tenant cloud architectures (Google Cloud Platform preferred).\nInfrastructure as Code (IaC): Deep architectural experience with modern declarative tools (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar) managing complex multi-environment cloud footprints.\nCI/CD & Developer Experience Primitives: Proven track record building large-scale, automated build/test/release pipelines (e.g., Tekton, GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows, Bazel) designed around self-service internal developer platforms.\nPlatform-as-a-Product Mindset: Demonstrated ability to interview internal engineering stakeholders, quantify developer friction points, and deliver platforms that measurably increase overall deployment frequency and reduce MTTR.\nPreferred Qualifications\nAI & Agentic Workloads: Practical experience designing infrastructure, sandboxes, and execution runtimes specifically geared toward AI agents, LLM evaluations, or high-performance GPU orchestration.\nData Platform Adjacency: Hands-on architectural exposure to supporting large-scale data platforms (e.g., BigQuery, Spark, Kafka, Ray) or complex distributed simulation environments.\nAlphabet Ecosystem: Working knowledge of Google-internal infrastructure primitives (Borg, Monarch, Spanner, Piper/Blaze) or experience operationalizing an X moonshot into an independent production environment.\nTier-1 Tech Platform Experience: Background engineering high-throughput platform tooling or developer infrastructure at companies operating at high engineering scale (e.g., Netflix, Snowflake, LinkedIn, Datadog).\nOur Values\nTake charge: We take initiative and own outcomes that move the mission forward.\nTransform with purpose: We build solutions that solve real problems and create meaningful impact.\nBe a Tapestry, not a thread: We collaborate across diverse skills and perspectives to achieve more than we can individually.\nAlways fine-tune: We stay curious, seek feedback, and refine our understanding as we learn.\nStay grounded: We listen openly, value different perspectives, and stay focused on what matters most.\n\nWhat we offer\n\nA culture that supports growth, ownership, and meaningful impact, along with:\n\nCompetitive salary and equity\nMedical, dental, and vision coverage\nGenerous PTO and flexible hybrid work model\n401(k) with employer contribution\nProfessional development\nThe ability to work on important real-world problems within an Alphabet-backed environment\n\nThe US base salary range for this full-time position is $207,000 - $290,000 + bonuses + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.\n\nPlease note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, or benefits.\n\nAn Equal Opportunity Workplace\n\nAt X, we don't just accept difference - we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products and our community. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.\n\nIf you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at x-accommodation-request@x.team.","company":"Xdevelopment","rawCompany":"xdevelopment","city":"Mountain View","state":"HI","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-29T09:10:45.919Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1251.00","title":"Computer Programmers","slug":"computer-programmers"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Staff Backend Software Engineer, Developer Productivity Engineering","description":"Software EngineeringMountain View, CA (HQ)\n\nAbout Tapestry\n\nTapestry is a group within Google working to build the AI-powered electric grid. 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