Developer Experience Engineer
Developer Experience Engineer
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Job Description
About the Role
We are looking for a Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer to help shape our approach to building testing deploying and operating software. Your mission: empower engineering teams to move faster build more reliably and spend less time fighting infrastructure. Youll bring together SRE principles scalable infrastructure and a product mindset to improve engineering systems workflows and culture across the company.
Note: We understand this is a broad role. This is our first dedicated investment into DevEx and we dont expect one person to handle everything forever. As the team grows so will the scope. But if youre excited about driving meaningful change across some of these areas lets talk.
What we are looking for
- 5 years of experience in roles like SRE DevOps or Platform Engineering
- Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes including design and production troubleshooting
- Solid knowledge of Google Cloud Platform services (GKE IAM CloudSQL Pub/Sub etc.)
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Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform)
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Strong understanding of CI/CD systems and release pipelines
Excellent communication skills and ability to align with engineers PMs and leadership
- Strong debugging and incident response skills across infra and application layers
- Production-grade experience with Java (Kotlin preferred); Go is a plus
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Familiarity with DORA metrics and improving developer productivity
Bonus Points
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Experience with GitOps workflows
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Background in developer platform or internal tooling development
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Familiarity with progressive delivery strategies: canary blue/green feature flags
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Exposure to observability stacks (e.g. Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry)
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Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
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Experience evaluating and rolling out third-party DevEx tools
What Youll Do
- Build self-service workflows for deployment testing and observability
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Lead reliability and system hardening initiatives
- Use DORA metrics (Deployment Frequency Lead Time Change Failure Rate MTTR) to identify bottlenecks and drive measurable improvements across the SDLC.
- Enhance the on-call experience with better tooling processes and documentation
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Support engineers during incidents with hands-on troubleshooting and guidance
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Design manage and evolve our Kubernetes-based infrastructure
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Develop and roll out deployment strategies like blue/green canary and shadow deployments
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Work with teams to implement safe release and rollback patterns
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Maintain and improve our cloud infrastructure on GCP
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Own and enhance our CI/CD pipelines and shared platform tooling
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Ensure the stability scalability and security of core infrastructure
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Evaluate and introduce developer tools that align with team needs and workflows
Why You will Love This Opportunity
Profitable company with huge growth ahead
Remote-first setup: work from anywhere
Personal learning budget (2000/year)
Free language lessons
Virtual Share Option Program (VSOP)
Relocation support (visa housing assistance etc.)
Germany-based perks:
- 25 vacation days
- Gympass Gold
- Deutschland-Ticket
- 50 internet allowance
- State-of-the-art equipment Mac or Windows
- Daily lunch & ergonomic setup (if in the Berlin HQ)
Employment Type
Full Time
