Developer Experience Manager

Nuix; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Nuix is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to own and grow the Developer Experience function. You will lead a small team delivering tooling, standards, automation, and workflows that enable ~100 engineers to build, test, and ship software quickly and safely.

You’ll shape AI-enabled development practices while maintaining governance and quality. You will define the developer platform, promote self-service, and collaborate with engineering managers to raise standards across CI/CD, repository

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading platform, developer experience, DevOps, or engineering enablement teams in a software product company
• Strong hands-on background in CI/CD, repository management, artifact management, testing automation, and developer workflow design
• Experience with Jenkins (pipeline-as-code, shared libraries), Git-based workflows, artifact repos, and code quality/security scanning tools
• Proven track record of introducing internal developer platforms, standardized tooling, or golden path templates used by multiple teams
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to translate feedback into a prioritized roadmap

Responsibilities

• Define the developer platform strategy and own theroadmap for developer experience tooling across all engineering teams
• Build and maintain standardised repository templates with CI pipelines, testing frameworks, linting, security scanning, dependency management, and documentation scaffolding
• Design and operate artifact repository strategy including structure, retention, and usability
• Drive automation for release notes and changelog generation from metadata
• Evaluate and introduce new tooling to improve developer flow, quality and speed
• Ensure internal tools are well-documented, maintained and user-friendly
• Lead AI-enabled development practices and guardrails across engineering
• Pilot AI use cases such as PR review assistance, test generation and documentation
• Establish governance for responsible AI use in engineering
• Partner with leaders to scale successful approaches and discard unhelpful ones
• Promote shift-left quality with automated testing within pipelines
• Reduce build instability and bottlenecks with better tooling
• Use metrics to identify friction points and publish repeatable patterns
• Enable self-service platforms reducing ticket-driven workflows
• Lead and grow a small team of DevX engineers and define career paths
• Balance reactive support with long-term platform investments

Skills

DevX leadership

CI/CD

Repository workflows

Artifact management

Code quality tooling

Security scanning

Documentation standards

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket

Artifactory/Nexus

Job description

We're on a mission to be a Force For Good, through our People, Products and Purpose at Nuix. This extends to our People. We're fiercely passionate, love working at pace, thrive in ambiguity, live, and breathe outside of the box, and above all are good humans. We're determined to make a positive difference in the world, whether through our solutions which help the top companies, governments and agencies find the truth and combat illegal activities, or through our people who care about contributing and giving back both within, and outside, of Nuix. We are a Force For Good. We're selective about who comes on board, and you should be too.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a hands‑on engineering leader to own and grow our Developer Experience function at Nuix. You’ll lead a small team that operates as an internal product team for engineering — building the tooling, standards, automation, and workflows that make it easier, faster, and safer for ~100 engineers to build, test, and ship software. This isn’t a DevOps role. Our DevOps Aligned/Embedded engineers handle environments, pipeline operations, and infrastructure. Your job is different: you define what great looks like across our developer toolchain, then build the platforms and patterns that make it the default. You’re the person who turns a multi‑day “set up a new service” process into a one‑command experience. You’ll also lead our AI‑enabled development lifecycle (AI‑DLC) strategy — determining where AI‑assisted tooling (code review, test generation, documentation) can accelerate engineering without compromising quality or governance.

Location

This is a hybrid role; 3 days in the Sydney office.

Key Responsibilities

Define and deliver the developer platform strategy

• Own the roadmap for developer experience tooling across all engineering teams at Nuix
• Build and maintain standardised repository templates with CI pipelines, testing frameworks, linting, security scanning, dependency management, and documentation scaffolding baked in
• Design and operate our artifact repository strategy — structure, retention, dependency proxying, and developer usability
• Drive automation for release notes and changelog generation using commit, branch, tag, and PR metadata
• Evaluate and introduce new tooling that improves developer flow, code quality, and delivery speed
• Ensure our internal tools (source control, CI pipelines, code quality, artifact management, security scanning) are well‑maintained, well‑documented, and easy to use

Lead AI-enabled development practices

• Own the AI‑DLC adoption strategy, guardrails, and measurement across engineering
• Identify and pilot practical use cases: PR review assistance, test generation, defect triage, documentation generation, and developer workflow acceleration
• Establish governance for responsible AI use in engineering — quality controls, security scanning, traceability, and usage guidance
• Partner with engineering leaders to scale what works and kill what doesn’t, with data to support both

Champion engineering best practices

• Work with Engineering Managers and Architects to raise the bar on standards — branching, versioning, PR hygiene, dependency management, and documentation
• Promote shift‑left quality: automate unit, integration, and security testing within delivery pipelines so problems are caught before they reach humans
• Reduce build instability, flaky tests, and delivery bottlenecks through better tooling and clearer patterns
• Use DORA metrics and developer experience data to identify friction points and prioritise improvements
• Publish replicable patterns that any team can adopt without needing DevX involvement

Enable self‑service and reduce friction

• Foster a culture where teams can build, test, release, and operate their services without filing tickets
• Replace manual processes with self‑service platforms, golden paths, and sensible defaults
• Support teams through documentation, enablement sessions, office hours, and practical guidance
• Make developer support proactive rather than reactive

Extend into product operations

• Strengthen release execution through better release orchestration tooling, deployment readiness checks, and feature rollout controls
• Improve traceability from code to production — so teams (and customers) have confidence in what shipped
• Partner with product operations to improve the operational usability of what engineering delivers

Lead and grow the team

• Lead a team of 2–4 DevX engineers, growing them across both DevX and DevOps domains
• Set priorities based on engineering pain points, strategic bets, and measurable impact
• Balance reactive support with longer‑term platform investment
• Build strong relationships across engineering managers, DevOps, QE, Security, and Product Operations
• Create career pathways for senior ICs (principal engineer track) and those interested in people leadership

What You Won’t Do

• Day‑to‑day pipeline operations — Level 2 troubleshooting, environment provisioning, and keeping builds green is owned by DevOps Aligned/Embedded and Engineering teams
• Infrastructure administration — CI server instance management, build agent/AMI creation, plugin upgrades, and certificate management sit with DevOps Aligned/Embedded
• AWS environment management — FinOps reviews, cost alert routing, and account provisioning are DevOps Aligned/Embedded responsibilities
• Production cloud operations — SaaS infrastructure and production deployments are Cloud Ops/Platform
• Package creation — Shrink‑wrap and SaaS builds are owned by engineering teams

Your job is to make all of the above easier for those teams through better tooling and standards — not to do it for them.

Skills, Knowledge And Expertise

• 5+ years leading platform, developer experience, DevOps, or engineering enablement teams in a software product company
• Strong hands‑on background in CI/CD, repository management, artifact management, testing automation, and developer workflow design
• Experience with Jenkins (pipeline‑as‑code, shared libraries), Git‑based workflows (Bitbucket or GitHub), Artifactory or similar artifact repositories, and code quality/security scanning tools (SonarQube, Mend/WhiteSource, or equivalent)
• Proven track record of introducing internal developer platforms, standardised tooling, or golden path templates used by multiple engineering teams
• Strong stakeholder management — you can influence across engineering functions without direct authority
• Ability to translate vague “everything is painful” feedback into a clear, prioritised roadmap of platform and process improvements
• People leadership experience: coaching, career development, and performance management for small technical teams

Desired Expertise

• Practical experience with AI‑assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, or similar) and governance considerations around their adoption
• Terraform/IaC experience in a multi‑account AWS environment
• Experience implementing and using DORA metrics to drive engineering productivity improvements
• Open source compliance and license governance experience
• Comfortable working across APAC and US timezones in a hybrid model
• Background in enterprise software, forensics, legal tech, or security products (helpful context but not essential)

About NUIX

Nuix is an equal opportunities employer. Don’t let imposter syndrome hold you back! We welcome all applications and are a flexible employer. We strive to make any required adjustments where possible to make the process fair and equitable for everyone. If you need any accommodations throughout the interview process, please note this in your job application. Nuix is on an incredible journey of transformation, aligning our strengths with our ambitions to pursue greater opportunities. As we expand our global team and extend our skills and expertise, we are unified as one Nuix team guided by our shared values. https://www.nuix.com/ As we expand our global team and extend our skills and expertise, we are unified as one Nuix team guided by our shared values.

Nuix Vision

Finding Truth in a Digital World.

Nuix Mission Statement

Nuix creates innovative software that empowers organizations to simply and quickly find the truth from any data in a digital world. We are a passionate and talented team, delighting our customers with software that transforms data into actionable intelligence.

Nuix Values

• TAKE OWNERSHIP
• RESILIENT
• UNAFRAID
• TEAM NUIX
• HERO OUR CUSTOMERS

We believe in these principles and seek to weave them into the fabric of our daily work at Nuix. In doing so, we co‑create a dynamic and purposeful company culture that we can be proud of and want to belong to.

• Nuix is an Equal Opportunity Employer**