Senior Developer ; DevEx Engineer

Senior Developer Experience Engineer

Location: Vienna, Virginia 22180

Work Arrangement: On‑Site

Our client is seeking a visionary yet hands‑on Senior Developer Experience (Dev Ex) Engineer to serve as a founding individual contributor supporting their Dev Ex initiative. Your mission will be to reduce developer cognitive load, accelerate engineering velocity, and deliver an outstanding developer experience.

You’ll partner closely with engineering leadership, product teams, and fellow platform engineers to modernize and optimize every aspect of the software development lifecycle from onboarding to deployment. AI tooling expertise is essential, as you will help embed intelligent automation and developer‑assist capabilities throughout workflows. You will also play a key role in renovating and extending core data platforms for high observability, reliability, and actionable insights.

• Define and own the Developer Experience roadmap for the Platform Team, aligned with organizational goals
• Design, build, and maintain internal developer platforms that simplify and standardize development workflows
• Leverage IDP tools such as Backstage and Cortex to enhance platform capabilities
• Integrate and champion AI‑powered developer tools including AI‑assisted code generation, intelligent code review, and automated documentation
• Continuously evaluate emerging AI development tools and APIs for workflow integration
• Establish and promote best practices for Azure Dev Ops CI/CD pipelines, local development environments, and cloud‑native deployments
• Reduce developer cognitive load by abstracting infrastructure complexity, improving release management, and championing self‑service capabilities
• Drive self‑service solutions for engineers to provision, test, and deploy safely and autonomously
• Optimize feedback loops in partnership with product teams to enable rapid iteration and higher‑quality releases
• Measure and improve DORA/SPACE and developer productivity metrics, using data for continuous improvements
• Lead developer education and enablement initiatives; produce demos, presentations, and certify new Dev Ex features
• Evaluate and implement security, compliance, and observability best practices into developer tool chains
• Ensure secure and responsible AI tooling usage in line with organizational AI governance
• Advocate for an engineering culture of continuous improvement

• Drive digital innovation by leveraging new technologies and methodologies to transform core data assets including SQL, No
  
  SQL, and cloud‑based data platforms
• Implement efficient data flows through code data pulls, transformations, and exchanges across internal and external sources
• Work with complex, possibly "noisy" data ensuring data consistency and collaborating with upstream teams
• Define cost‑efficient data storage strategies for CI/CD data repositories
• Architect and promote reusable data assets, managing reference data catalogs and surfacing data for end‑user consumption via Azure API Apps or modern visualization tools
• Aggregate and analyze internal and external structured and unstructured data to deliver actionable insights to decision‑makers
• Implement advanced monitoring, logging, and observability practices for developer workflows and data pipelines

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with 3+ years in platform engineering, developer experience, or Dev Ops roles
• Track record of delivering developer productivity and platform initiatives at scale
• Deep experience with cloud‑native development including Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Enterprise, Kubernetes, and CI/CD
• Expertise in integrating and using AI‑powered development tools such as Git Hub Copilot, OpenAI API, and AI‑based testing
• Solid knowledge of software delivery metrics (DORA, SPACE) and improvement methodologies
• Advanced proficiency in at least one programming language (Java, Go, Python, etc.) and modern Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform)
• Experience building and operating new platform and developer experience functions while influencing technical direction
• Exceptional…