Principal Engineer, Developer Experience (DevEx)
AlphaSenseabout 4 hours ago
Base Salary
$246k - $339k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the DevEx strategy across the organization in partnership with engineering leadership.
- Align and connect efforts across Core Developer Experience and Cloud/Platform Developer Experience.
- Ensure a holistic approach to developer experience, avoiding local optimizations and fragmentation.
- Identify and drive improvements across the end-to-end developer journey.
- Establish and standardize developer productivity metrics and engineering insights.
- Guide the evolution of internal developer platforms and self-service capabilities.
- Drive consistency and reliability in CI/CD systems for fast and predictable delivery workflows.
- Lead the adoption of AI-enabled software development practices across teams.
- Partner with engineering, SRE, and platform teams to influence direction without direct ownership.
- Act as a technical leader and mentor, raising the bar for developer experience thinking and execution.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in Developer Experience, Platform Engineering, and large-scale engineering systems.
- Strong software engineering background with deep systems and operational thinking.
- Proven track record of defining and driving cross-organizational technical strategy.
- Experience working across multiple domains such as platform, cloud, CI/CD, and developer tooling.
- Strong experience with internal developer platforms and enabling self-service ecosystems.
- Deep understanding of developer productivity metrics and engineering insights.
- Experience improving CI/CD systems for reliability, speed, and predictability at scale.
- Demonstrated ability to align multiple teams and stakeholders without direct authority.
- Strong systems thinking with the ability to balance local needs versus global optimization.
- Recent experience driving or adopting AI-enabled development workflows across the software development lifecycle.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills across engineering and leadership levels.
- Experience with cloud-native architectures and Kubernetes-based platforms.
- Familiarity with progressive delivery methods such as feature flags and canary releases.
- Familiarity with frontend platforms or microfrontend architectures is a plus.
- EST or UK timezone for closer overlap with direct team members is a plus.