Who You Are

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, developer productivity, SRE, or related infrastructure engineering roles
• Experience enabling engineers to use coding agents through reusable tools, workflows, and guidance, with independent validation and scoped access
• Experience owning production build, test, and release infrastructure across services and teams, including versioned release bundles and compatibility testing
• Hands-on experience with build systems, dependency management, reproducibility, performance diagnosis, and caching
• Strong Python skills for building and debugging backend services and maintainable automation. Comfortable navigating unfamiliar code, including JavaScript frontends
• Strong Linux fundamentals and experience building and maintaining secure container images. Working knowledge of Kubernetes, GitOps, infrastructure as code, and cloud deployment
• Hands-on experience implementing software supply-chain controls. Demonstrated security judgment across permissions, credentials, dependencies, artifacts, and remediation
• Experience building developer platforms, automated remediation, or reusable agent tooling adopted by other engineers
• A record of improving build/test performance, release reliability, and tooling adoption using metrics and developer feedback
• Experience independently leading complex projects and migrations. A record of setting technical direction and driving adoption across teams is especially valued. You defend technical choices with evidence and adapt to changing constraints
• Preferred: Building and operating testing infrastructure in a microservices environment
• Preferred: Distributing release artifacts to customer registries or restricted environments, including offline packaging

What We Offer

• The base salary range for this role is $200,000-$250,000, depending on experience, location, and level. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for meaningful equity, along with a comprehensive benefits package
• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
• Flexible time off
• Retirement and financial planning benefits, including access to pre-tax HSA, FSA, and commuter accounts, 401(k), and financial coaching resources
• Comprehensive wellness benefits, including physical fitness, mental well-being, and fertility and family-building benefits through Carrot
• Complimentary in-office lunches and snacks provided
• Access to state-of-the-art AI models, generous usage of modern AI tools, and real-world business problems
• Ownership of high-impact projects across top enterprises
• A mission-driven, fast-moving culture that values curiosity, pragmatism, and excellence

Distyl has offices in San Francisco and New York. This role follows a hybrid collaboration model with 3+ days per week (Tuesday–Thursday) in‑office.

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We believe diverse perspectives make our work stronger and more impactful. We are an equal opportunity employer and evaluate all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.