Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fetch is a technology company hiring a Staff Backend Engineer focused on CI/CD Engineering. The role will evolve software delivery infrastructure, improve CI/CD performance and developer workflows, establish technical direction, and lead cross-team initiatives that make software delivery faster, safer, and more reliable.
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for CI/CD systems and software delivery infrastructure across Fetch
- Own the CI/CD roadmap over multiple quarters, aligning investment with org priorities, cost tradeoffs, and engineering strategy, and making the case for where to invest and where not to
- Design, build, and evolve scalable CI pipelines, deployment systems, and developer automation
- Improve feedback loops by making build failures, test results, quality signals, and deployment health easier for developers to understand and act on
- Identify and eliminate bottlenecks across build, test, merge, deployment, and release workflows
- Improve CI performance through caching, parallelization, workload optimization, infrastructure improvements, and thoughtful test execution strategies
- Design quality gates and automated safeguards that allow teams to move quickly without compromising reliability
- Build tools and platform capabilities that standardize common software delivery patterns while allowing teams to move independently
- Partner with infrastructure, SRE, security, backend, frontend, and mobile engineers to improve the reliability and scalability of our software delivery systems
- Establish metrics and observability for CI/CD systems, including developer feedback time, pipeline reliability, infrastructure utilization, and deployment performance
- Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions and introduce new technologies when they provide meaningful improvements over existing solutions
- Lead complex, cross-team technical initiatives from problem definition through adoption
- Drive adoption of new tools and workflows through documentation, technical guidance, training, and hands-on collaboration
- Mentor senior and staff-level engineers, and establish feedback loops, review standards, or coaching practices that raise the technical bar for platform, infrastructure, and developer productivity engineering across teams
- Explore how AI and agentic development workflows can improve build, test, review, deployment, and operational processes
Skills
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building or operating CI/CD, developer infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or related systems
- Demonstrated Staff-level technical leadership, including leading ambiguous initiatives that span multiple engineering teams
- A track record of growing other engineers through mentorship, technical guidance, or the standards and practices you have put in place
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to work across application and infrastructure boundaries
- Experience designing and operating modern CI/CD systems at meaningful scale
- Strong understanding of build systems, testing infrastructure, deployment strategies, artifact management, and release automation
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and modern DevOps practices
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated infrastructure provisioning
- Strong understanding of containers and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience diagnosing performance, scalability, and reliability problems across distributed build or deployment systems
- Strong understanding of software delivery tradeoffs including speed, cost, reliability, developer experience, and operational complexity
- Ability to write production-quality software and automation rather than relying exclusively on configuration or third-party tooling
- Strong communication skills with experience influencing technical direction across teams without direct authority
- High degree of ownership and agency. Comfortable navigating ambiguity, defining a path forward, and driving toward pragmatic and maintainable solutions
- A developer-focused mindset with a strong interest in understanding how engineers interact with the systems you build
- An AI-forward mentality and willingness to explore emerging tools that can meaningfully improve engineering effectiveness
- Experience building internal developer platforms or developer productivity tooling at medium-to-large engineering organizations
- Experience with CI platforms such as GitHub Actions, Bitrise or similar systems
- Experience with Kubernetes-based build or CI infrastructure
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
- Experience with AWS or another major cloud provider
- Experience with observability systems and establishing SLOs for developer-facing infrastructure
- Experience designing progressive delivery systems, canary deployments, feature rollouts, or automated rollback mechanisms
- Experience improving large monorepo or multi-repository build systems
- Experience working across backend, frontend, mobile, and infrastructure environments
- Experience developing internal platforms or paved roads that abstract infrastructure complexity for application engineers
- Experience applying AI or autonomous agents to software development, testing, CI/CD, or operational workflows
- Open-source contributions or involvement in developer tooling, infrastructure, or DevOps communities
Benefits
- Equity: We offer full-time employees equity in Fetch, so that everyone can benefit from Fetch’s growth.
- 401k Match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 4%.
- Benefits for humans and pets: We offer comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for everyone including your pets.
- Continuing Education: Fetch provides ten thousand per year in education reimbursement.
- Employee Resource Groups: Take part in employee-led groups that are centered around fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace through events, dialogue and advocacy. The ERGs participate in our Inclusion Council with members of executive leadership.
- Paid Time Off: On top of our flexible PTO, Fetch observes 9 paid holidays, as well as our year-end week-long break.
- Robust Leave Policies: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 14 weeks for secondary caregivers, and a flexible return to work schedule.
- Calvin Care Cash: Employees who are welcoming new family members will also receive a one time $2,000 incentive to assist employees with covering the cost of childcare, clothing, diapers and much more!
- Flexible Work Environment: Collaborate with your team in one of our stunning offices, or you can work fully remotely from anywhere in the US. We’ll ensure you are equally equipped with the hardware and software you need to get your job done in the comfort of your home. (applicable for most roles)
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