Staff Software Engineer

Redfin Redfin · Seattle · MI · Remote

Staff Software Engineer to build autonomous AI-development infrastructure, including harnesses, scaffolding, context engineering systems, and workflow automation, to turn AI coding tools into production-grade accelerants for millions of Rocket homeowners.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and build AI harness and scaffolding systems that operationalize AI coding tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and others) across Servicing Digital's engineering workflows.
  2. Architect and implement context engineering infrastructure - prompt systems, context retrieval patterns, knowledge packaging, and evaluation frameworks that make AI tools accurate and trustworthy at scale.
  3. Build workflow automation that integrates AI assistance into CI/CD pipelines, code review, testing, and developer feedback loops.
  4. Develop reusable tooling, templates, and frameworks that teams across the vertical can adopt without requiring deep AI expertise.
  5. Instrument and evaluate AI workflow effectiveness - build the feedback loops that surface where AI assistance is helping and where it is breaking down.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years in professional software engineering roles
  • Demonstrated experience building developer tooling, automation systems, or AI-assisted workflow infrastructure in a production engineering environment

Nice to have

  • Hands-on expertise building context engineering systems - including prompt architecture, retrieval-augmented generation patterns, and evaluation harnesses for LLM-powered tooling.
  • Deep practical experience with AI coding tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or equivalents) and the ability to extend and customize them for team-scale deployment.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals in TypeScript and/or Python, with experience building developer tooling and CI/CD pipeline integrations.
  • A builder's instinct: you default to shipping working software over producing frameworks, proposals, or presentations.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to translate engineer workflow needs into durable tooling.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-development infrastructure
  • autonomous systems
  • AI coding tools
  • context engineering infrastructure
  • developer automation
  • autonomous AI-development
  • AI harness and scaffolding systems
  • context engineering infrastructure
  • evaluation frameworks
  • workflow automation
  • AI assistance
  • AI workflow effectiveness
  • AI developer tooling landscape

Other signals

  • AI development infrastructure
  • autonomous systems
  • developer tooling
  • AI coding tools
  • context engineering