Senior Engineer- Developer Experience

Role & responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Developer Experience & Engineering Productivity

• Champion developer experience as a first-class engineering concern by identifying and eliminating friction throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Design and implement self-service developer platforms that enable engineers to provision infrastructure, deploy applications, manage environments, and access platform services independently.
• Build paved-road solutions that provide secure, scalable, and opinionated paths for software delivery.
• Partner with engineering teams to understand productivity challenges and develop solutions that improve developer workflows.
• Improve onboarding experiences, development environments, documentation, templates, and automation that accelerate time-to-productivity for engineers.
• Establish and track engineering effectiveness metrics, including DORA, SPACE, and other developer productivity measurements.

CI/CD & Deployment Automation

• Design, build, and optimize CI/CD platforms using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and related technologies.
• Drive adoption of true Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment practices, enabling teams to deploy changes safely and frequently through automated pipelines.
• Build deployment automation, release orchestration, environment management, and rollback capabilities.
• Improve build reliability, deployment speed, and developer feedback loops through automation and platform enhancements.
• Establish standards and best practices for testing, deployment validation, release management, and software delivery governance.

Platform Engineering & Cloud Infrastructure

• Design and maintain cloud-native platform capabilities running on Azure and Kubernetes.
• Develop reusable infrastructure patterns and self-service capabilities using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Create shared platform services that simplify application development and operations.
• Collaborate with SRE, Security, and Platform Engineering teams to ensure scalability, reliability, and compliance requirements are met.
• Drive platform modernization initiatives that improve operational efficiency and reduce engineering toil

Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence

• Lead complex technical initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams.
• Influence technical direction and platform strategy through architecture, standards, and best practices.
• Mentor engineers on platform engineering, cloud-native development, CI/CD, and DevEx principles.
• Balance platform innovation, technical debt reduction, and operational stability.
• Foster a culture of automation, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Developer Experience, Site Reliability Engineering, or related roles.
• Demonstrated experience building and operating CI/CD platforms at scale.
• Experience implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment practices in production environments.
• Proven track record of improving developer productivity through platform engineering and automation.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or comparable CI/CD technologies.
• Experience building internal tooling, developer platforms, or engineering productivity solutions.
• Experience working in highly regulated environments is preferred, particularly financial services or fintech

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building Internal Developer Platforms using Backstage or similar developer portals.
• Experience with GitOps practices and technologies such as ArgoCD.
• Experience with progressive delivery, feature flagging, canary deployments, or blue-green deployment strategies.
• Experience implementing engineering effectiveness programs using DORA, SPACE, or similar frameworks.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and modern observability platforms.
• Azure, Kubernetes, Cloud, or DevOps certifications.

Experience leveraging AI-powered development tools to improve developer productivity and software delivery.