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Datacurve · 3 months ago

Software Engineer - Developer Experience

San Francisco

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

Datacurve is building a gamified developer platform where engineers create high-fidelity datasets for LLM advancements. The Software Engineer - Developer Experience will own the technical lifecycle of data pipelines, from defining new data formats to shipping the necessary tools and documentation for developer experience.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Information TechnologyInternetSoftware Engineering

Responsibilities

Own projects end-to-end, from initial prototyping to ongoing maintenance, bug fixing, and iteration based on feedback

Own developer experience pipelines end‑to‑end: Prototype tooling for collecting new data formats → productionize workflow → iterate from developer experience

Champion DX: Create clear, concise guidelines and documentation to empower our data contributors and ensure high-quality inputs for your projects

Quality & governance: Develop and manage the quality standards for your projects, which includes training and aligning content reviewers to ensure data consistency and accuracy. Implement automated checks, eval harnesses, reviewer workflows, and data quality bars; be hands on and in the weeds to align with reviewers on standards

Maintain & iterate: Monitor, debug, and continuously improve reliability, latency, and contributor success rates

Define Frontier data formats: Co‑author specs/RFCs with frontier lab researchers; design schemas, metadata, and versioning for new task/trajectory formats

Build developer tooling & environments: Ship tooling, sandboxes, CLIs/SDKs, and capture/instrumentation to make contribution flows fast and safe

Qualification

Full-stack developmentReactPythonAI tools proficiencyCloud infrastructure (AWS)DockerCI/CD pipelinesOrganized mindsetTechnical judgmentCuriosityPride in workWritten communication

Required

Excellent written communication skills, with a proven ability to explain complex concepts to a less technical audience

An organized and process-oriented mindset – you enjoy bringing structure to ambiguous problems and are meticulous about quality

Foundational full-stack skills, with experience in React and at least one modern backend language (e.g., Python, Node.js, Go)

Strong technical judgment and a pragmatic mindset – you know how to balance speed with quality, recognizing the need for a scrappy solution versus when to invest in a robust architecture

A deep resourcefulness with AI – you are highly adept at prompt engineering and using AI tools to find the fastest path to a solution