Senior Lead Software Developer

Lumen is the trusted network for the AI‑powered world, connecting people, data, and applications through our expansive fiber network and connected ecosystem. We enable secure, high‑performance connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads for enterprises, governments, and communities.

At Lumen, you’ll work on infrastructure customers rely on today and build for what’s next, where performance, security, and resilience matter.

This is a high accountability environment where bold ideas drive real innovation for customers, partners, and industry. The work is challenging, expectations are clear, and trust is built into how we operate. If you’re ready to take ownership, deliver meaningful impact, and help shape the future of AI‑ready connectivity, join us today.

This is a high-accountability environment where bold ideas drive real innovation for customers, partners, and the industry. The successful candidate will take ownership, deliver meaningful impact, and help shape the future of AI‑ready connectivity.

Lumen is seeking an experienced and hands‑on Senior Lead Software Developer, AI Developer Enablement to help shape the next chapter of AI-assisted software engineering across the organization. This role will define, build, and scale reusable AI capabilities that accelerate developer productivity, reduce friction in everyday engineering work, and transform practical AI workflows into high‑impact accelerators for teams across the enterprise.

The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in modern software development, AI‑assisted engineering workflows, developer tooling, automation, APIs, cloud platforms, and enterprise engineering practices. This individual will work closely with engineering, platform, Dev Sec Ops , security, product, and AI teams to translate developer pain points into secure, scalable tools, skills, agents, and patterns that teams are eager to adopt.

As the Senior Lead Software Developer, AI Developer Enablement, the candidate will play a visible role in helping engineers write, test, review, troubleshoot, document, and deliver software with greater speed and confidence. This is a builder role for an individual who enjoys progressing from bold ideas and working prototypes to production‑ready enablement capabilities that make AI useful in the daily flow of software delivery.

The ideal candidate should possess a strong understanding of generative AI principles, agentic AI workflows, prompt design, code generation, knowledge retrieval, software delivery practices, responsible AI, and secure enterprise adoption patterns. This role will help make AI enablement practical, measurable, and transformational for developers across Lumen.

This is a work from home position within the US.

• Design and implement AI-enabled developer workflows for code generation, reviews, debugging, testing, documentation, research, incident triage, and platform navigation. Establish scalable, secure, and repeatable patterns for AI adoption across engineering teams.
• Develop reusable prompts, agents, integrations, and workflow accelerators that improve developer productivity while aligning with architecture, security, governance, and operational standards.

• Identify development friction and translate it into high‑impact AI solutions. Partner with engineering teams to reduce toil, accelerate delivery, improve onboarding, and enhance the developer experience from ideation through production.
• Define adoption metrics, feedback loops, and success measures to demonstrate improvements in quality, delivery speed, developer confidence, and overall performance.

• Build and scale shared AI capabilities, reference architectures, prompt libraries, templates, and playbooks that teams can adopt quickly and consistently.
• Partner with platform, architecture, and security teams to ensure AI solutions are maintainable, discoverable, observable, governed, and aligned with responsible AI practices.

• Improve access to engineering knowledge through AI-powered…