Software Developer, Infrastructure - Developer Experience

We’re looking for a seasoned Software Engineer, with a strong background in infrastructure, with focus on Development Tools, to join the Cato team. In this role, you will be a part of an infrastructure team focusing on the overall Developer Experience, with the goal of reducing friction and increasing the entire R&D organization efficiency and enable faster, more reliable and engaging development process. The Developer Experience infrastructure team exists to make Cato a better place to develop software. The team is responsible for the tools and platforms that support hundreds of engineers across Cato's R&D organization on a daily basis, with a clear mandate: reduce friction and improve the day-to-day experience of every developer at Cato. This is deep infrastructure engineering with organization-wide impact, spanning ephemeral environment provisioning, source control and IDE tooling, build performance and distributed caching, CI/CD and release engineering, test infrastructure reliability, internal developer platforms, dependency management, developer onboarding, and observability into the development process itself. Improvements delivered by this team have a multiplicative effect across the entire engineering organization, as gains in efficiency and reliability are realized at scale, directly shaping how every developer at Cato builds, tests, and ships software.

Responsibilities: 

• Discover, define, design, build and own products and tools across the entire development process (starting from SCM, through IDE, AI agents, build, testing, environments, feature flags and all the way to continuous deployment and production metrics. And more...).   

• Work in collaboration with the Development and Research orgs on one side, DevOps and SRE on the other side, to capture requirements, identify issues and jointly resolve and deliver solutions. 

• Educate (yourself and the organization) about State-of-the-Art tools, techniques and methodologies which would allow us to continuously improve our R&D. 

• Be the evangelist of all of the above, supporting the different groups in Cato (onboard and drive adoption) 

Requirements:

• 5+ years of Experience as a software developer, with focus on infrastructure level experience (experience in Python/ Go or similar is required)

• Experience developing in cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP) 

• Proven ability to drive large scale, long running projects, including transformative projects (impacting >50 developers minimum, preferably >100) 

• Experience with Configuration Management/DevOps tooling  

• Familiarity with NoSQL DBs and relational DBs. We’re using PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, and more.    

• Experience in building and operating SaaS microservices with high scale and load in production    

• Experience testing services in continuous integration methodology    

• Knowledge and experience in designing and implementing network systems - Advantage    

• Motivated, a fast learner, independent, and great at problem-solving    

• BSc. degree in Computer Science from a known university or equivalent experience