Member of Technical Staff, Developer Experience

Reactor

$135K — $160K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience
  • Proficient in debugging across various technologies
  • Strong technical writing skills for documents and tutorials
  • Interest in direct developer interaction and support
  • Expertise in API and SDK design principles
  • Ability to understand SDKs and documentation as intertwined elements
  • Comfortable with ambiguity in early-stage roles

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to SDKs and CLIs in multiple programming languages
  • Create comprehensive documentation, tutorials, and reference guides
  • Develop example applications and integrations for the platform
  • Debug customer integrations from end to end, improving error handling
  • Define and measure developer experience metrics to guide development
  • Provide feedback on integration issues to improve platform design
  • Monitor developer pain points through community and support channels
  • Transform frequently reported issues into concrete SDK or documentation enhancements

Benefits

  • Direct access to the engineering team and user developers
  • Competitive salary and equity opportunities
  • Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits
Full Job Description
Member of Technical Staff, Developer Experience

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: San Francisco

Description

We're building the missing layer for real-time world models.

This role owns the developer's experience of our platform: the SDKs, the docs, the examples, and the fix when a customer's integration breaks.

What You'll Do
  • Contribute to our SDKs and CLIs across the programming languages our developers use, plus the tooling that scaffolds and generates clients for all of them
  • Write the documentation, quickstarts, tutorials, and reference guides that get a developer from zero to a working real-time session in minutes, and use them yourself to keep them accurate
  • Build example apps and reference integrations that show what's possible with the platform
  • Debug customer integrations end to end: client, network, session, inference, and turn each failure into a better error message, a doc fix, or an SDK improvement
  • Define and instrument how we measure developer experience, and use that data to decide what to build next
  • Feed integration problems back into platform and API design, and push for the underlying fix rather than a workaround in the docs
  • Keep a pulse on where developers get stuck across support, GitHub issues, and community channels, not just what reaches you as a formal bug report
  • Turn a pattern that keeps showing up in support threads into a real SDK or docs fix instead of a FAQ entry


What We're Looking For
  • 3+ years as a software engineer, with the ability to chase a bug across the browser, backend, and more
  • Ability to build working demos against our SDKs quickly, and to review customer integration PRs
  • Strong technical writing; comfortable producing docs, tutorials, and reference content
  • Genuine interest in working directly with developers: in support threads, teaching, and having the patience to meet people where they are
  • A sharp eye for API and SDK design, and the judgment to know when a workaround is enough and when the root cause needs fixing
  • You think of a good SDK and good docs as the same problem, not two separate ones
  • Comfort with an early-stage role where scope isn't fully defined yet


Nice to Have
  • Experience with WebRTC, streaming media, or other real-time systems
  • Prior DX/SDK/docs work at a developer-tools or API company
  • Familiarity with API/schema design
  • Open-source contributions, technical blogging, or an existing developer audience
  • Experience building with AI products and models
  • Familiarity with GPU-backed inference or debugging performance issues in a real-time media pipeline


Benefits
  • Direct access to the engineers building the platform, and to every developer who uses it
  • Competitive SF salary and meaningful early equity
  • Visa sponsorship and relocation support
  • Generous health, dental, and vision coverage

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