Staff Developer Experience Engineer

Role overview

A staff-level engineering position focused on shaping how a cybersecurity organization builds, tests, releases, and operates software. The role leads a Developer Experience function that owns the foundations connecting local development to production delivery, including CI/CD, build systems, container base images, artifact promotion, and release workflows. It combines hands-on technical leadership with cross-team influence to reduce friction and raise delivery quality across engineering.

Responsibilities

- Define the architecture and roadmap for local development, repository tooling, CI/CD, build systems, and release workflows. - Lead high-impact initiatives that standardize the path from code change to production and reduce manual coordination. - Build reusable CI/CD templates, runner capabilities, developer workflows, test gates, artifact promotion paths, release manifests, and rollback procedures. - Establish sustainable practices for shared container images, build performance, reproducibility, scanning, signing, provenance, and supply-chain security. - Design safe AI-assisted development workflows that integrate cleanly with code review, testing, scanning, permissions, and auditability. - Mentor engineers, develop technical owners, and communicate complex decisions across Platform, Security, QA, Product, and Program Management.

Requirements

- 8+ years of experience in Developer Experience, Developer Productivity, Build/Release Engineering, Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or software engineering with substantial tooling ownership. - Deep experience designing and operating CI/CD systems, ideally GitLab CI/CD with self-hosted runners. - Hands-on experience with container builds, Docker or OCI images, artifact repositories, and reproducible builds. - Strong understanding of Kubernetes-based development or delivery workflows. - Proficiency in Go and Python for automation, developer tooling, or platform services. - Demonstrated success leading complex initiatives across multiple teams and driving adoption of shared capabilities, paired with strong written and verbal communication.

Nice to have

- Internal developer platform, paved-road, service-template, or developer-portal experience. - Shared language or runtime base images, image signing, SBOMs, or provenance-control work. - Hands-on management of a GitLab Runner fleet at scale.

Benefits and work setup

- Base salary range of $199,750 to $270,000 annually, plus an equity package in the form of stock options for full-time employees. - Health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and their families, a flexible vacation policy, and generous parental leave. - Hybrid and remote work arrangements depending on role and location, with occasional travel for company onsite meetings and team collaboration.