Engineering Director, Developer Experience
$206,250–$275,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Lead and grow a multi-team organization managing Infrastructure Services and Developer Tooling, including CI/CD orchestration, GitOps, and artifact management. Define the vision for developer experience by integrating AI across the SDLC through coding assistants, automated code review, and test generation. Own the strategy for AI-driven engineering intelligence while ensuring system availability, performance, and security. Drive the evolution of pipelines to be faster, more reliable, and self-service, embedding capabilities like automated triage and intelligent incident response. Establish metrics to drive measurable improvements in developer productivity and partner with security, legal, and product leadership to set policy for AI-generated code and data handling. Manage the budget, tooling investments, and vendor relationships for the developer experience portfolio while recruiting, mentoring, and retaining exceptional engineering leaders.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of progressive engineering experience
- 5+ years of engineering management
- at least 2+ years leading managers (managing managers)
- Demonstrated track record in building and scaling developer experience, platform engineering, or DevOps organizations in a mid-to-large engineering org
- Deep, hands-on familiarity with the modern CI/CD and developer tooling stack: Jenkins, ArgoCD, Artifactory or equivalents
- Practical experience evaluating, rolling out, and measuring the impact of AI developer tooling
- A clear point of view on how AI changes the SDLC and how to capture that value without compromising on security, code quality, or developer trust
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes, GitOps, containerization, and cloud-native deployment patterns
- Experience in defining and operating internal developer platforms and golden paths
- Excellent strategic thinking paired with a willingness to go deep on technical decisions when needed
- Strong communication and executive presence; able to influence across engineering and partner with security, compliance, legal, and product leadership
- A demonstrated bias toward developer empathy, self-service, and reducing toil
Desired Qualifications
- 10+ years of progressive engineering experience, including 5+ years of engineering management and at least 2+ years leading managers (managing managers)
- Demonstrated track record in building and scaling developer experience, platform engineering, or DevOps organizations in a mid-to-large engineering org
- Deep, hands-on familiarity with the modern CI/CD and developer tooling stack: Jenkins, ArgoCD, Artifactory or equivalents
- Practical experience evaluating, rolling out, and measuring the impact of AI developer tooling
- A clear point of view on how AI changes the SDLC and how to capture that value without compromising on security, code quality, or developer trust
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes, GitOps, containerization, and cloud-native deployment patterns
- Experience in defining and operating internal developer platforms and golden paths
- Excellent strategic thinking paired with a willingness to go deep on technical decisions when needed
- Strong communication and executive presence; able to influence across engineering and partner with security, compliance, legal, and product leadership
- A demonstrated bias toward developer empathy, self-service, and reducing toil
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