BuildOps gives commercial contractors one place to run service and projects — with AI built in, not bolted on. See what's different. Backed by Founders Fund.
About the role
This is a high-impact, cross-functional role for an engineer who sees quality and reliability as properties of the entire system—not as a final testing phase or the responsibility of a separate team. You will work across engineering, product, infrastructure, and customer-facing organizations to identify systemic risks, establish architectural standards, and create platform capabilities that make safe, dependable delivery the default. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- You think in systems and look for leverage across organizational and technical boundaries
- You are energized by ambiguous problems whose solutions require architecture, implementation, influence, and organizational change
- You challenge assumptions and distinguish underlying causes from visible symptoms
- You enable teams rather than becoming a gatekeeper or permanent dependency
- You are comfortable moving between long-term technical strategy and hands-on implementation when necessary
- You build credibility through sound judgment, clear communication, and measurable results
More about this role
BuildOps is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to set and drive our company-wide technical strategy for building, shipping, and operating reliable software.
This is a high-impact, cross-functional role for an engineer who sees quality and reliability as properties of the entire system—not as a final testing phase or the responsibility of a separate team. You will work across engineering, product, infrastructure, and customer-facing organizations to identify systemic risks, establish architectural standards, and create platform capabilities that make safe, dependable delivery the default.
You will influence how teams design systems, validate changes, observe production behavior, manage risk, and learn from failures. Your work will span architecture, developer tooling, release safety, observability, resilience, testability, and engineering practices. The specific solutions will evolve as you identify the highest-leverage opportunities.
Product engineering teams at BuildOps own the quality and testing of their features. Your role is not to test their work for them. You will establish the technical direction, paved roads, systems, and standards that enable every team to deliver...
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