Senior DevEx Engineer

Location: Remote - Chicago, Remote - San Francisco, Remote - New York City, Remote - Austin

Department: Engineering

Location Type: REMOTE

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

About the Role

Some of the things you'll do:

• Define and drive DevEx strategy across engineering organizations, partnering with senior leaders to align investments with business priorities
• Design, implement, and optimise CI/CD pipelines and lifecycle automation platforms
• Build developer tools and automation to simplify and expedite the software development lifecycle from requirements through release
• Define and promote golden paths for building, deploying, and operating services
• Reduce tooling fragmentation through consolidation, strong defaults, and principled standardisation
• Identify and eliminate friction across build, test, deployment, and operations workflows
• Improve and maintain core infrastructure across multi-cloud and hybrid environments
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive best practices in reliability, testability, and performance
• Represent DevEx strategy in senior technical forums and drive engineering culture improvements
• Iterate on evaluation frameworks that keep automation, AI-assisted tooling, and coding agents reliable and aligned with sound software engineering practices

About You

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years focused on developer productivity, platform engineering, or internal tooling
• Strong hands-on coding skills in one or more modern languages such as Python, Go, Java, TypeScript, Kotlin, or Swift
• Deep experience with CI/CD systems, build infrastructure, testing frameworks, and deployment automation
• Demonstrated ability to influence engineering practices across multiple teams or organisations
• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering workflows, coding agents, or LLM evaluation pipelines
• Experience improving developer productivity at a company with hundreds or thousands of engineers
• Experience identifying, measuring, and systematically eliminating friction in the software development lifecycle
• Ability to balance standardisation with developer autonomy - knowing when to enforce defaults and when to empower teams
• Proven track record of translating technical strategy into measurable outcomes
• Experience operating critical systems with high reliability, observability, and availability requirements
• Clear and effective communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and leadership audiences

Nice to have:

• Experience building and scaling internal developer platforms as products (e.g., Backstage or similar portals)
• Experience with application lifecycle management or automation at enterprise scale
• Passion for engineering excellence and a track record of raising the technical bar across teams

Compensation

• SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Boston, New York, and Washington, DC Metro: $187,000 - $220,000 USD
• All other US Locations: $169,000 - $198,000 USD