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Magic · 10 hours ago

Developer Experience & Data Tooling Lead

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level
money$240K/yr - $370K/yr

Magic is seeking a Developer Experience & Data Tooling Lead to enhance the productivity of their pre-training data team. The role involves building internal tools and infrastructure, focusing on developer experience and tooling to streamline workflows and improve data handling processes.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Information TechnologyMachine Learning
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Responsibilities

Lead tooling efforts across the stack: build systems, continuous integration, CLI tools, and internal web UIs
Build internal tools for exploring datasets, labeling data, reviewing data quality, and tracking data inventory
Improve ergonomics of data infrastructure—IO patterns in Ray/dataflow jobs, dataset tracking, pipeline observability
Identify opportunities by engaging with the team, listening to pain points, and proactively improving workflows
Raise the bar on code organization, packaging, and engineering best practices

Qualification

Software engineering fundamentalsBuild systems / CI experienceData infrastructure experienceOpen source contributorCommunicatorBias toward actionStartup product development

Required

Strong software engineering fundamentals
Genuine care for developer experience and best practices in code organization
Good communicator who engages with teammates to understand their needs
Bias toward action—sees something broken and fixes it
Based in San Francisco (this role is in-office)

Preferred

Open source contributor — someone in the mold of tools like Ruff, uv, or similar developer-facing projects
Build systems / CI experience — has written or maintained build systems, CI pipelines, or developer tooling at scale
Startup product dev — comfortable moving fast, shipping throwaway prototypes, iterating quickly
Data infrastructure experience — familiarity with OLAP engines, columnar storage formats, or similar
Deep ML/AI expertise (this is a tooling role, not a modeling role)
Prior experience specifically in 'data engineering' pipelines—we care more about tooling instincts than domain experience

Company

Magic

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Magic is an AI coding startup that enables developers to work with AI to find code for building apps.
dateFounded in 2022
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size2-10 employees
web-link
https://magic.dev

H1B Sponsorship

Magic has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (2)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$465.93M
Key Investors
Flat CapitalNFDG VenturesCapitalG
2025-01-14Series Unknown· $0.81M
2024-08-29Series Unknown· $320M
2024-02-16Series B· $117M

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