Developer Experience Manager - Nuix

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

Job summary

Nuix is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to own and grow our Developer Experience function. You’ll lead a small internal product team that builds tooling, standards, automation, and workflows for ~100 engineers to ship software.

This role defines what great looks like across our developer toolchain, drives AI-enabled development lifecycle, and partners with engineering to accelerate delivery while maintaining governance. Hybrid in Sydney, three days in the office.

Qualifications

• Experience leading developer experience teams or internal product teams.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD tooling and engineering workflows.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and governance considerations.
• Ability to drive platform strategy and standardisation across multiple engineering squads.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the developer platform strategy.
• Own the roadmap for developer experience tooling across all engineering teams.
• Build and maintain standardised repository templates with CI, testing, linting, security scanning, dependencies and docs scaffolding.
• Design and operate our artifact repository strategy, including structure, retention and usability.
• Drive automation for release notes and changelog generation using metadata from commits, branches, tags and PRs.
• Evaluate and introduce new tooling to improve developer flow, code quality and delivery speed.
• Ensure internal tools (VCS, CI, code quality, artifact management, security scanning) are well-maintained and easy to use.
• Lead AI-enabled development practices and guardrails across engineering teams.
• Own the AI-DLC adoption strategy and measurement across engineering.

Skills

Leadership

Developer Experience

Platform tooling

AI in development

Tools

Git

CI pipelines

Artifact repositories

Security scanning

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. But if the above sounds like a match, get in touch today and get ready for the possibility of starting a once-in-a-career journey.

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