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The way we help is by keeping it simple and supporting entrepreneurs one step at a time. Put simply: our mission is to enable anyone to start, run, and grow their business while avoiding the common pitfalls that derail hopeful entrepreneurs. No more having to wade through forms, taxes, or ongoing state compliance. \nWe are a remote company based in Austin, Texas. We have team members from Florida to Oregon and all points in-between. Take pride in your work knowing that it shapes how people all across the country reach their goal of starting, running, and growing their business. \nIf the idea of helping people and working with a genuinely caring, supportive team excites you, then you’ve come to the right place.\nThe Role\nWork with the developer platform team on a portfolio of initiatives that improve developer experience and delivery speed - from design through rollout, enablement, and measurement.\nThoroughly understand how the platform's roadmap connects to the broader business; contribute feedback to that roadmap and look for opportunities to simplify product and technical design.\nBuild and scale AI-powered developer tooling:\nAgentic coding and review workflows that use LLMs to analyze code, generate changes, and collaborate via chat.\nPolicy- and guardrail-aware assistants that can comment, propose code changes, and safely automate repetitive tasks.\nPrompt libraries, instructions, and service manuals that make AI adoption effective and safe across teams.\nContribute to the evolution of our CI/CD platform to be faster, more observable, and easier to adopt:\nSurface insights that inform team-level improvements.\nStrengthen platform reliability and security in Kubernetes:\nImprove cluster/app resiliency, rollout strategies, and priority classes for critical services.\nApply Helm chart patterns, deployment practices, and IaC workflows.\nContribute to incident response playbooks, maintenance modes, and recovery patterns.\nCreate paved paths and golden templates for developers:\nSelf-service software templates, CLI/automation enhancements, and bootstrap flows.\nClear docs, runbooks, and technical blogs that drive adoption and reduce support load.\nCollaborate and grow:\nPair with teammates on complex changes, champion code review quality, and share practices within the team.\nEnsure your commitments are realistic given priority and urgency, and deliver on them accordingly. Anticipate and communicate blockers, delays, and scope changes before they require escalation. Keep expectations clear among everyone involved.\nQualifications\nA track record of building platform capabilities with clear outcomes in developer velocity, reliability, and/or quality.\nSolid experience in one or more of the following and working knowledge of the rest:\nCI/CD systems and reusable pipeline components (e.g., GitHub Actions or similar).\nKubernetes, Helm, GitOps (e.g., ArgoCD), and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform).\nAI for engineering: prompt design, multi-agent orchestration, safety/guardrails, and integrating LLMs into code and review workflows.\nProficiency in at least two languages used for platform work (e.g., Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Bash); comfortable moving across stacks to ship end-to-end solutions.\nStrong security and reliability instincts (secrets, least privilege, dependency hygiene, runtime hardening).\nCommunicates effectively, clearly, and concisely in written and verbal form on both technical and non-technical subjects, tailored to the audience - from docs and service manuals to guides that accelerate adoption across the team.\nActively listens to others and ensures they are understood.\nBonus Qualifications\nExperience building agentic developer assistants that can review code, propose changes, and safely automate routine tasks.\nCDN and edge controls for maintenance and incident response.\nPlatform observability improvements (logging/metrics/traces) and performance baselining.\ngRPC service enablement and runtime configuration patterns.\nExposure to commercial LLM providers (e.g., Anthropic) and safe rollout patterns in enterprise settings.\nCompensation Range: $125,000-$150,000 annually\nWe believe in transparent and equitable compensation practices. The range listed above reflects the typical range for this role based on experience, skills, and market. Individual compensation decisions are made thoughtfully and may vary based on qualifications and business needs. \nOur total rewards package includes competitive benefits, paid time off, equity, and additional programs designed to support employee well-being and growth.\nRemote Culture. A great company culture leads to happy employees, and happy employees lead to happy customers. We provide our employees with good salaries, benefits, equity, and interesting challenges that have a positive impact. \nLet’s stay connected! We believe in staying connected, and we have a weekly “All Hands” meeting every week. We also have a social committee that hosts frequent events. We’ve held a virtual talent show, costume competitions, monthly lunch and learn series, Hackathons and more! \nBenefits. The company offers various benefits to employees and their dependents, including medical, vision, dental, disability, and life insurance, as well as parental and military leave. Other benefits include an employee assistance program, 401k + match, annual bonus, pet insurance, and RSUs. Paid parking* and 10 paid holidays are also provided. \nDiversity, Equity and Inclusion. We believe in diversity, equity & inclusion. At ZenBusiness, every voice counts no matter your race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, location, or background. 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