Principal Software Engineer, Developer Experience Lead
Principal Software Engineer, Developer Experience Lead
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Job Description
As Developer Experience Leader you will play a pivotal role in transforming the daily experience of developers within CyberArk. This highly visible technically influential position sits at the intersection of engineering DevOps security and product. As an individual contributor youll design and champion modern platforms workflows and tools that boost productivity reduce friction and drive a culture of engineering excellence.
This isnt just about maintaining systems its about crafting the internal ecosystem that fuels the next decade of Machine Identity Security product innovation at CyberArk including secure-by-default workflows AI-integrated development environments and seamless cloud-native delivery.
What Youll Do
- Drive Developer Productivity: Identify bottlenecks across the SDLC and architect solutions that simplify accelerate and standardize engineering workflows..
- Design & Build Internal Platforms: Partner with DevOps and infrastructure teams to develop tools CI/CD pipelines and reusable components that improve build/test/deploy speed safety and satisfaction.
- AI-Enabled Workflow Enablement: Shape the foundational tooling and policies that enable safe compliant and performant AI-assisted development across CyberArk.
- Lead Developer Advocacy: Act as a bridge between engineering teams and platform teams gathering feedback translating needs into action and driving adoption of new tools and best practices.
- Elevate Onboarding & Documentation: Own the developer onboarding journey creating golden paths templates internal wikis and training that shorten time-to-first-pull-request.
- Build for Observability & Insights: Define and track developer experience metrics (e.g. DORA onboarding time tool adoption) to continuously improve our platforms and report impact to leadership.
- Foster Technical Culture: Organize tech talks hackathons internal working groups and cross-team initiatives that promote innovation and knowledge sharing.
Why This Role
- High Impact: This is a force-multiplier role your work directly improves the productivity of engineers working on mission-critical software.
- Strategic Visibility: Youll work closely with leadership engineering directors and cross-functional product teams to align priorities and demonstrate value.
- Own the Future: Help define how CyberArk builds software for the next decade including the adoption of secure AI-ready engineering practices.
- Modern Stack & Real Autonomy: Work with the tools you love (Kubernetes GitOps cloud-native platforms) in a flexible high-trust culture that values technical leadership.
- Culture of Security Innovation: At CyberArk security is built-in but never slows us down. Youll have the rare opportunity to innovate within one of the worlds most trusted security brands.
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Qualifications :
- 10 years of experience in engineering roles (e.g. software development DevOps developer productivity platform engineering).
- Demonstrated success building or scaling internal developer platforms or tooling at the org-wide level.
- Strong knowledge of modern SDLC workflows GitOps CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins ArgoCD GitHub Actions) and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform Ansible).
- Solid coding skills in one or more languages (e.g. Python Go JavaScript Java).
- Experience with Kubernetes container orchestration and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus Grafana Datadog).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills able to influence without authority and align diverse stakeholders.
- Deep empathy for developers and a passion for crafting seamless reliable internal tooling that lets engineers do their best work.
- Bonus: Experience supporting AI/ML teams or building workflows for AI-enhanced development environments.
- Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience..
- Able to work hybrid out of our Salt Lake City Utah or Santa Clara CA
Join CyberArk and redefine how secure software is built from the inside out
Additional Information :
CyberArk is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion creed sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or protected Veteran status.
We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visa at this time.
CyberArk is a people-first company. We offer a competitive compensation package performance-based equity and comprehensive benefits including generous parental leave flexible PTO and support for remote work. We invest in your growth through mentorship learning stipends and opportunities to lead from any level. The salary range for this position is $175000 $200000/year plus annual bonus which will be based on the employees performance and equity. Base pay may also vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
