- Experience: 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping and maintaining production-grade software.
- Strong API and interface design instincts: You understand the cost of a breaking change, know how to version things sensibly, and design with the consumer of your interface front of mind.
- Proficiency in at least one strongly-typed language: (Go, Python, TypeScript, or similar) and comfort picking up others as needed. Cloudsmith's CLI and tooling surface spans multiple languages and environments.
- Security awareness: You understand secure coding practices, and you're comfortable thinking about how credentials, tokens, and access patterns flow through the tools you build.
- Familiarity with CI/CD ecosystems and modern DevOps toolchains: the environments your tools will live in.
- Clear, confident written communication: You can write a well-reasoned RFC, a sensible changelog, and a README that developers actually read.
- A genuine empathy for other engineers as users: You've felt the frustration of a bad CLI or a confusing SDK, and you bring that lived experience into how you build.
Hands-on experience building or contributing to developer-facing tooling - CLIs, SDKs, Terraform providers, language server protocols, IDE extensions, or similar. You don't need to have built all of these, but you should feel at home in this ecosystem.
Experience with AI-assisted development tools and workflows, and an interest in how they’re reshaping the way engineers build software.
Cultural Values We're Looking For
At Cloudsmith, our values shape how we make decisions every day. Here's what we mean by that in the context of this role:
Automate everything. We believe that if it can be automated, it should be. You'll apply this to your own work - releases, testing pipelines, validation - and help raise the bar for the whole team.
Collective ownership. You'll take responsibility for what you build long-term, respond when things break, and treat the entire platform as something you have a stake in - not just your corner of it.
Transparency. We share what's working and what isn't, openly. You'll be honest about tradeoffs, flag problems early, and communicate progress in a way that keeps stakeholders - internal and external - genuinely informed.
Bias for action. We believe in pragmatism first, perfection later. You'll know when to move quickly with a good solution rather than waiting for an ideal one, and you'll build the kind of instincts that make that call reliably.
Just better. We believe everything can and should be improved upon. You'll bring a continuous improvement mindset to your work - questioning defaults, proposing refinements, and raising the bar without being precious about it.
Customer collaboration. We stay close to the people who use what we build. You'll treat customer feedback as a genuine input to your work, and care deeply about the experience of the engineers on the other side of your tools.
Impact & Opportunity
This role offers the chance to directly shape the developer experience for one of the most critical layers in the software supply chain. As a member of a newly established squad with a clear mandate and growing capacity, you'll have meaningful influence over the tools, standards, and culture from day one. From startups to Fortune 500 companies, your work will directly impact how organizations control and secure their software supply chains.
Growth & Development
This is a foundational hire for a new squad, which means the growth ceiling is high. As the team matures and the scope of the roadmap expands, there is a clear pathway for growth.
For engineers who love the craft and want to go deeper, there's a natural progression toward a senior or staff engineering track - owning architectural decisions, mentoring newer engineers, and shaping the technical direction of developer tooling as a platform capability.
