We are seeking a Principal DevEx Engineer to improve the developer experience end-to-end, eliminating friction, accelerating onboarding, and lifting productivity across the entire software delivery lifecycle.
Requirements
- Define and steer medium- and long-term architectural strategies aligned with company goals
- Lead technological transformations and modernizations of critical systems, ensuring efficiency, scalability and reliability
- Serve as the technical authority for the Engineering and Architecture Chapters, championing best practices and quality standards
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
- Promote the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices within your squad and chapter
- Codify architecture into practice, delivering reference implementations and golden-path templates
- Own API governance end to end
- Institutionalize reliability by defining SLIs and SLOs with teams
- Make observability the default through standardized traces, metrics, and logs
- Lead policy-as-code adoption across CI/CD, Kubernetes admission and IaC
- Engineer safe delivery with trunk-based flows, reusable GitHub Actions, progressive rollouts, automated rollback, and health- or SLO-gated deployments
- Raise the security bar in services via OAuth2 scopes, JWT validation, mTLS, secrets lifecycle management, key rotation, and least-privilege IAM patterns
- Design event topologies covering Kafka partitioning and keying, compaction and retention policies, consumer-group strategies, ordering and idempotency, and exactly-once semantics where required
- Drive cost-aware architecture through capacity models, autoscaling policies, storage and egress optimization, cost allocation per service, and cost-to-serve guardrails
- Harden platform resilience with multi-AZ patterns, backup and restore drills, disaster-recovery objectives (RPO/RTO), chaos/game-day exercises, and dependency fallback strategies
- Deliver one-click developer environments using DevContainers/Codespaces, Docker Compose, and seeded data to reduce onboarding and setup time through standardized tooling and scripts
- Measure what matters by publishing DevEx and SRE scorecards, setting targets and running continuous improvement cycles with squads
- Run lightweight technical-governance rhythms such as design and API clinics, ADR/RFC hygiene, and a platform council to prioritize enablers and eliminate systemic friction
Benefits
- Competitive and market-aligned salary
- Remote work
- Home office allowance
- Health and dental plans with no co-pay
- Life insurance
- Flexible meal allowance
- TotalPass membership
- Spanish or Portuguese classes
