Staff Engineer, Developer Platform

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Job Overview:

We are looking for a highly experienced Staff Engineer to join the FGA Developer Tooling team and lead the evolution of our end to end developer experience across both OSS and SaaS.

This team owns the SDKs in Go, JavaScript, .NET, Python, Java and other languages, along with CLI workflows, IDE integrations, GitHub automation, developer documentation, and release strategy. All development is done in the open as open source, and we actively welcome and review community contributions.

Our guiding principle is One developer experience, many deployment models.

As a Staff Engineer, you will define technical direction, ensure cross language consistency, influence API design in partnership with FGA Core, and raise the quality bar across all developer facing tooling.

Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the technical direction for FGA SDKs, CLI, IDE integrations, and developer automation across OSS and SaaS.

• Lead architectural decisions for multi language SDKs in Go, JavaScript, .NET, Python, and Java, leveraging and evolving the SDK generator that forms the core of all clients.

• Own and evolve the SDK generator framework, templates, and wrapper patterns to ensure cross language consistency, configurability, and long term maintainability.

• Establish standards across SDKs for authentication flows such as client credentials, error mapping and handling, retry logic with appropriate rate limiting strategies, and method level configuration overrides.

• Ensure advanced SDK capabilities such as BatchCheck, ListRelations, and non transactional write operations are implemented with appropriate parallelization, performance safeguards, and consistency across languages.

• Own and evolve the release and versioning strategy for SDKs and developer tooling.

• Drive improvements to CLI workflows, GitHub Actions, CI pipelines, and developer focused documentation and examples.

• Ensure high engineering standards for testing, mocking external requests, dependency management, performance, and minimal external dependencies.

• Lead development fully in open source, review community pull requests, guide contributors to a mergeable state, and improve contribution workflows and community health.

• Partner closely with FGA Core on API design and semantics, and with internal consumers such as Dashboard to ensure developer friendly interfaces.

• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the Developer Tooling team.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with significant experience building SDKs, developer platforms, or tooling.

• Proficiency in at least one, and ideally multiple, of the following: Go, JavaScript or TypeScript, C# .NET, Python, or Java.

• Strong understanding of SDK design principles, API ergonomics, and cross language consistency.

• Experience designing or maintaining code generation systems such as OpenAPI Generator and templating frameworks.

• Experience designing authentication flows, retry strategies, rate limiting, and resilient client side systems.

• Experience setting up and maintaining GitHub Actions and release workflows.

• Strong testing practices including mocking external services and validating client behavior.

• Experience working in open source projects and PR based contribution models. Experience maintaining or leading open source projects is strongly preferred.

• Ability to influence technical direction across teams and operate effectively in a distributed, open development environment.

• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate closely with internal teams and external contributors.

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