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Principal Engineer, Developer Experience

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Job Description - Principal Engineer, Developer Experience

The Role

Our client is looking for a Principal Engineer to lead Developer Experience (DevEx) at scale.

In this role, you will treat developer experience as a product—driving platform adoption, reducing friction across the software development lifecycle, and delivering measurable improvements in productivity, quality, and reliability.

You will work across organizations, partnering with senior engineering leaders to influence standards, platforms, and long-term technical direction.

What You’ll Do

  • Define and drive the DevEx strategy across the client.
  • Own developer experience as a product, with clear roadmaps and success metrics.
  • Identify and eliminate friction across the software development lifecycle.
  • Drive platform-first adoption of CI/CD, testing, and lifecycle automation.
  • Define and promote golden paths for building, deploying, and operating services.
  • Lead the evolution of lifecycle automation platforms.
  • Reduce tooling fragmentation through consolidation and strong defaults.
  • Influence engineering practices to improve delivery speed, quality, and reliability.
  • Partner with senior leaders to align DevEx investments with business priorities.
  • Represent DevEx strategy in senior technical and leadership forums.

What We’re Looking For

  • Experience leading large-scale platform, infrastructure, or developer productivity initiatives.
  • Ability to influence engineering practices across multiple teams or organizations.
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD, testing, deployment, and service operations.
  • Experience balancing standardization with developer autonomy.
  • Proven ability to translate technical strategy into measurable outcomes.
  • Clear and effective communication skills.

Nice to Have

  • Experience building internal platforms as products.
  • Familiarity with developer portals (e.g., Backstage).
  • Experience with application lifecycle management or automation at scale.
  • Exposure to AI-assisted engineering or automation workflows.
  • Passion for improving developer experience and engineering excellence.
  • Shape how engineering is done at our client.
  • Impact thousands of developers and millions of players.
  • Work on long-term, high-impact platform initiatives.
  • Partner with strong technical leaders across the company.
  • Turn developer pain points into durable, scalable solutions.
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