# Software Engineer, Developer Productivity at Chalk

- Company: Chalk
- What the company does: Chalk is the AI data platform that delivers real-time context and compute infrastructure for agents and ML models — deployed in your cloud, built for speed. Backed by General Catalyst and Felicis.
- Company website: https://chalk.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: SF
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $170K to $280K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/chalk/2f22906b-527f-4aa8-82e7-0a6f842c560e
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/chalk-software-engineer-developer-productivity/

## About the role

We are hiring a Software Engineer to make every other engineer at Chalk move faster. You will be responsible for building our internal developer platform, from Bazel and CI through to release automation, and the tooling engineers use locally. Today this work is spread across the engineering team alongside everything else people are shipping. You would be the first person to own it outright, set the priorities, and build the function from here.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, ideally in developer productivity
- C++ coding experience as a Software Engineer
- Strong Distributed Systems experience
- Ideally have hands-on Bazel experience. You have written and debugged BUILD files and Starlark, configured toolchains, and worked through either a real migration or in a large existing workspace
- Ability to work autonomously and to make pragmatic tradeoffs with an eye towards business outcomes
- Strong communication skills

Tags: Engineering