Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform

Job Overview

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build and evolve our internal developer platform—everything from CI/CD and release automation to observability standards, platform tooling, and developer workflows that remove friction.

Key Responsibilities

• Developer productivity & platform tooling


• Identify workflow bottlenecks (build/test/release/local dev) and build tools that measurably reduce toil.


• Create and maintain “golden paths” like service templates, CLIs, libraries, and automation that teams rely on.


• CI/CD & release engineering


• Design reusable CI pipelines and deployment workflows that are fast, safe, and easy to adopt across teams.


• Improve reliability of builds and tests (flake reduction, hermeticity, caching) and drive down cycle time.


• Support progressive delivery patterns (canary / blue-green) and safe rollback mechanisms.


• Observability & operational excellence


• Establish shared observability primitives (metrics/logs/traces), standards, and libraries so services are production-ready by default.


• Partner with product engineers to improve operability: SLOs, alerting hygiene, dashboards, incident learnings.


• Infrastructure foundations


• Build and improve core platform capabilities that make it easy to run and scale services.


• Ownership & reliability


• Own the systems you build end-to-end and help keep them healthy in production, improving reliability over time.

Required Qualifications

4+ years building production software, with meaningful experience in platform / devtools / infrastructure (or adjacent SRE/release engineering).

Strong coding ability in at least one systems/productivity language (e.g., Python, TypeScript/JS), and comfort building developer-facing tooling (CLIs, libraries, automation).

Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and designing pipelines that are scalable and reusable across many repos/services.

Practical experience with observability in production systems (instrumentation, alerting, dashboards, incident response).

Comfort with containers and modern cloud infrastructure (e.g., Docker/Kubernetes and related tooling).

A track record of improving developer experience through measurable outcomes (faster builds, fewer flakes, safer deploys, fewer incidents).

Strong cross-team collaboration and communication—especially writing clear docs and driving adoption.

About Decagon

Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences. Our technology enables industry-defining enterprises like Avis Budget Group, Block’s Cash App and Square, Chime, Oura Health, and Hunter Douglas to deploy AI agents that power personalized, deeply satisfying interactions across voice, chat, email, SMS, and every other channel.

We’re building a future where customer experiences are being redefined from support tickets and hold music to faster resolutions, richer conversations, and deeper relationships. We’re proud to be backed by world-class investors who share that vision, including a16z, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Coatue, and Index Ventures, along with many others.

We’re an in-office company, driven by a shared commitment to excellence and velocity. Our values — Just Get It Done, Invent What Customers Want, Winner’s Mindset, and The Polymath Principle — shape how we work and grow as a team.

Benefits

We proudly offer the following benefits for our full-time employees:

• Take what you need vacation policy (subject to local requirements; UK employees receive 25 days of statutory leave)


• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family


• Life Insurance and Disability Benefits


• Retirement Plan (e.g., 401K, pension)


• Parental Leave


• Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot


• Daily lunches and snacks in the office to keep you at your best