Senior Developer - Platform; Developer Operations

About The Role

Hi, I'm James, and I help lead the Infrastructure & Enablement group tform Engineering and Developer Experience are career passions of mine, and both are areas critical to our group here. One of the many reasons I joined Jane was to help developers here spend more time helping our helpers and less time worrying about day-to-day development.

Jane's product development org grew from 250 to almost 500 staff in about two and a half years. Roughly 350 of us ship software every day leveraging Git Hub, Jira, AWS, and more. We've rapidly outgrown the side-of-desk administration of these platforms that are key to our software and product delivery lifecycle. Helping shape the developer experience through settings, security, governance, and implementation in these tools is what the Developer Operations team is all about.

That's the job. You'd be a foundational builder as part of a new Developer Operations team, and the first dragon to wrangle is Git Hub. Git Hub is your platform to own end to end: help drive a more mature baseline, automate it, roll it out, and support the teams already using it. This is taking the tools we already use and making them genuinely delightful to use, so the safe path is also the easy, default path.

Our concrete target is every repo at Jane is compliant with a defined operational and security baseline within twelve months. Alongside Git Hub, this role continues to grow in scope and breadth taking on administration and integration of all of the key tools in our SDLC, and helping us introduce new ones to fill the gaps as we identify them.

You own this with real independence, but with the support and guidance of working groups that have already done the hard thinking on what the baselines should be. Partners in Security, Delivery Engineering, Backend Foundations, Developer Acceleration, and more - already care deeply about the outcome, but you're responsible for taking that guidance and making it a reality. Agentic and AI development raise the value of getting this system humming now, rather than later.

The same model continues to streamline our SDLC from end-to-end encompassing Jira, Data Dog, and whatever comes next. You're helping shape how this team works before there's even a team to shape.

You'd be joining a group that treats developer experience as real work with real leverage. Over 300 people will have their day-to-day lives made better because of the choices you get to make.

If you like the idea of taking a sprawling, underserved platform and turning it into something people trust, I'd love to meet you.

• Be the accountable owner of Git Hub at Jane. Multiple orgs, 900+ repos, 300+ developers. You set the operational and security baseline, you decide what good looks like, and you're the person the org can escalate to instead of guessing.

• Collaborate to build the golden path so the safe path is the default path. Repo creation, branch protections and rulesets, required reviews, secret scanning, least-privilege access - configured so teams get the right setup without having to know the rules, rather than a wiki page nobody reads. These golden paths also help guide teams on discovering technologies already available to them, reducing duplication of efforts, and ultimately helping teams help the helpers faster.

• Automate compliance instead of policing it. Configuration drift detection, compliance reporting, and guided enforcement through bots and dashboards, so standards hold without depending on any one engineer remembering them. Partner closely with our Platform Security teams on access controls, secret management, and alerting that actually reaches the right people.

• Lead the change management, not just the change. Chan…