Senior Developer Productivity Engineer

Together AI Together AI · Data AI · San Francisco, CA · Engineering

Senior Developer Productivity Engineer at Together AI, a research-driven AI company. Focuses on optimizing engineering workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and building shared tooling to accelerate software delivery. Requires strong experience in DevOps, CI/CD, and Python/Go/TypeScript.

What you'd actually do

  1. Automate CI/CD pipelines for zero-downtime deployments (e.g., Canary, Blue/Green).
  2. Streamline build/test/deploy workflows.
  3. Build shared tooling (CLIs, codegen, IDE plugins) to accelerate teams.
  4. Reduce friction (e.g., faster builds, hot-reload, test tooling).
  5. Collaborate with developers to identify pain points and streamline workflows.

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • Go
  • JavaScript/TypeScript
  • CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Gitops methodology)
  • Local dev environment tooling (e.g., Skaffold)
  • Containerized development workflows
  • Creating starter templates
  • DevOps/SRE
  • Developer tooling
  • Infrastructure engineering

Nice to have

  • Kubernetes expertise (EKS, K3s)
  • Optimizing containerized builds
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi)
  • Front-end tooling familiarity (e.g., React, Next.js, Jest)
  • Monitoring/observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb)

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of industry experience in DevOps/SRE, developer tooling, or infrastructure engineering
  • Strong ownership and a builder mindset, you love creating tools others rely on.
  • Problem-solving rigor and attention to detail (e.g., diagnosing flaky tests, build latency).