Developer Productivity Engineer

Role overview

Hightouch is hiring a Developer Productivity Engineer to own the engineering monorepo and the end-to-end “path to production” for a fast-moving engineering organization. The role is focused on improving how over 50 engineers build, test, and deploy—enabling teams to ship faster and safer.

Responsibilities

• Own the build/test/deploy pipeline as a single-threaded owner for how teams integrate into the release process
• Improve monorepo productivity by detangling build/test/deploy patterns so teams don’t block each other
• Investigate and implement tooling to speed builds (e.g., TurboRepo)
• Drive excellence in testing by improving test coverage visibility and supporting an expanding set of data sources/destinations and enrichment patterns
• Provide feedback using a “hold up a mirror” approach so teams understand their gaps
• Support multi-cloud and multi-region backend operations, including enabling launches in new regions for data residency
• Build operational excellence: catch issues earlier and respond quickly when production incidents occur

Onboarding / collaboration

• During onboarding, spend significant time writing and delivering features to understand and empathize with the current developer workflow
• Work with engineers and (when needed) customers to address scaling challenges and influence team/company priorities

Requirements

• Senior-level impact and ability to improve engineering velocity and safety
• Strong computer science and development fundamentals and comfort contributing to a JavaScript/TypeScript codebase

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with monorepo build optimization and/or tools like TurboRepo
• Experience supporting multi-region/multi-cloud infrastructure and data residency requirements