Developer Experience Engineer
Core
Building a Developer Experience (DevEx) function from the ground up to accelerate internal software engineers, reduce engineering friction, and improve productivity metrics across the organization.
Role type
Founding individual contributor Developer Experience Engineer
Builds
Internal developer tools, CI/CD pipelines, golden path templates, and AI-assisted development workflows for internal engineering teams
Domain
Cybersecurity / Platform Engineering / Developer Productivity
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Software engineering (4+ years), modern systems/scripting languages (Go preferred), CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), generative AI tooling integration, LLM security risks, cloud cost optimization, developer empathy/product mindset
Preferred skills
Agentic workflows, developer portal expertise (Backstage.io)
Technologies
GitLab Premium, Terraform/OpenTofu, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, RabbitMQ, MariaDB, Typescript, tRPC, Go, OpenAPI, Cursor, Claude, Codex, JetBrains, Sleuth
Responsibilities
Lead evaluation and integration of developer tools (especially AI-assisted); develop and maintain golden path templates; improve and standardize local development experience; abstract infrastructure tasks; support CI/CD pipeline improvements; define and track developer productivity metrics; build and maintain internal developer tools; conduct user research to identify friction points; improve engineering documentation structure
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC (founding role)
