Sr Staff Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

About the Role

The Build team makes it easier and faster to build high-quality applications at Gap by providing a comprehensive and opinionated set of development tools and CI/CD infrastructure.

Our objective is to maximize developer productivity by enabling streamlined workflows, robust source control management, intelligent automation, and the promotion of modern engineering best practices.

As a Sr. Staff Engineer, you'll lead the evolution and modernization of our GitHub infrastructure in collaboration with other engineering platform teams to create a seamless, AI-augmented developer experience.
What You'll Do

• Lead the evolution of our GitHub Enterprise infrastructure, focusing on modernization, scalability, and the adoption of advanced platform capabilities.

• Architect and implement config-as-code solutions (e.g., Terraform) to manage GitHub organizations, repositories, permissions, and policies at scale.

• Administer and optimize our GitHub Enterprise environment, ensuring reliability and performance for all engineering teams.

• Evaluate and enable GitHub's AI-powered development tools, including GitHub Copilot, Agent HQ, and emerging capabilities that enhance developer productivity and code quality.

• Develop and drive adoption of best practices for source control management, repository structure, branching strategies, and GitHub workflows across the organization.

• Collaborate with security, compliance, and engineering teams to establish governance policies and automation for our GitHub Enterprise platform.

• Participate in an on-call rotation to support our build and deploy systems.

• Provide technical guidance, documentation, and training to help teams adopt new GitHub capabilities and workflows effectively.

• Monitor and improve the performance, reliability, and usability of our source control platform, incorporating feedback from users across the organization.

Who You Are

• You have 7+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on build engineering, CI/CD, and platform administration.
• You have significant hands-on experience administering and managing GitHub Enterprise Server in production environments, including upgrades, performance tuning, high availability configurations, and troubleshooting.
• You have experience with GitHub Enterprise Cloud, including organization management, security configurations, and platform administration (highly desirable).
• You are proficient with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform) and have experience managing platform configurations declaratively.
• You have deep expertise in Git and source control best practices, including experience guiding large organizations through Git workflow improvements.
• You are proficient with modern CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Artifactory, and related DevOps tooling.
• You have experience with Docker and Kubernetes in large-scale production environments.
• You're well-versed in major cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, etc.) and have a track record of leading infrastructure migrations at scale.
• You have significant experience leading complex, multi-team projects in distributed environments, with strong stakeholder management skills.
• You are passionate about developer experience and thrive on making complex workflows simpler, faster, and more reliable.
• You enjoy collaborating across teams and disciplines, and you're skilled at translating developer needs into scalable platform solutions.
• You take pride in building systems that are well-documented, maintainable, and widely adopted across the organization.