Senior Developer Experience Engineer

You are a tooling-focused engineer who obsesses over developer productivity. You’ve built and maintained CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and automation that makes engineering teams faster. You understand that the best developer tools disappear into the background - they just work. You’re equally comfortable debugging a flaky GitHub Actions workflow and designing a new internal CLI. You care deeply about reducing friction and cognitive load for your fellow engineers. This is a foundational role. You’ll be one of the first dedicated engineers on a platform organization supporting 300+ engineers. You’ll shape not just the technical foundations but the culture and practices of the team.

Responsibilities

Own and evolve CI/CD infrastructure (GitHub Actions, deployment pipelines) to improve build times and deployment frequency; Build and maintain our developer portal (Backstage) - service catalog, golden path templates, and TechDocs integration; Create golden path templates for Go, Rails, and Vue.js services that bake in best practices automatically; Build and maintain internal developer tooling that accelerates engineering workflows; Configure and roll out AI-assisted coding tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) with organizational guardrails; Create self-service capabilities that enable teams to ship independently - from "I need a new service" to running in staging in under 4 hours; Drive adoption of platform capabilities through excellent documentation and developer education; Work with our SRE team to instrument and measure developer experience metrics (build times, deploy frequency, MTTR) to identify improvement opportunities; Implement security and compliance automation that protects without slowing teams down

Requirements

5+ years of professional software engineering experience; 3+ years of experience building developer tooling, CI/CD systems, or infrastructure automation; Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions strongly preferred); Experience with developer portals or internal platform tooling (Backstage strongly preferred, Cortex, Port, or similar also valuable); Experience with Kubernetes deployments and container orchestration; Proficiency in at least two programming languages, with a polyglot mindset valued; Frontend development skills - building portal UI and developer-facing tools; Strong systems thinking and ability to design for scale and reliability; Excellent written communication - documenting as you build

Nice to have

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, or similar); Experience with feature management systems (LaunchDarkly, Split, etc.); Familiarity with workflow engines (Temporal, etc.); Background in developer productivity metrics and measurement; Experience configuring or rolling out AI coding assistants (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor)

Benefits

Welcoming and casual environment; great benefits; wellness program offerings; company retreats; ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community