Sr. SDE, REALM

Are you an experienced engineer driven to solve complex technical problems that impact hundreds of developers at scale

Do you aspire to architect and build platforms that fundamentally transform how engineering teams design build and deliver software

The Developer Experience Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead high-impact technical initiatives that remove developer friction streamline workflows and deliver measurable gains in productivity efficiency and operational excellence..

Key job responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Architecture

- Design and architect scalable systems for developer productivity tools dashboards and automation platforms used by hundreds of engineers
- Lead the technical direction for major features and products within the developer experience portfolio
- Drive technical decisions and establish best practices for your teams codebase and infrastructure
- Mentor SDE 1s and SDE 2s conducting design reviews and providing technical guidance
- Partner with Principal Engineers to solve complex technical challenges and align on architectural approaches

Build High-Impact Products
- Create automation solutions that measurably reduce toil and improve developer workflows
- Design APIs and frameworks that other teams can leverage to build their own productivity solutions
- Ensure your solutions are scalable maintainable and operationally excellent

Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with development teams across the organization to deeply understand their pain points and requirements
- Work with Principal Engineers to validate technical approaches and incorporate feedback
- Collaborate with your manager and other senior engineers to define roadmaps and prioritize initiatives
- Influence technical decisions across partner teams to drive adoption of best practices
- Present technical designs and results to leadership and stakeholders


- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience

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