AI-First Developer Experience Lead

Vibehackers; United States; Hybrid; USD 102,412 - 136,550; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance (Alan)

Annual company offsite

Quarterly in-person syncs

Job summary

Vibe seeks an AI Lead for Developer Experience to shape an AI-first engineering workflow and manage the core tooling stack used across the engineering org. You will lead adoption of AI coding agents and tooling to boost velocity, onboarding, and security, driving measurable improvements across teams.

You will define and maintain the AI-centric developer lifecycle, collaborate with CI/CD, GitHub, and local dev environments, and ensure security is embedded early in the process.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience as a platform or developer experience engineer in a fast-moving product company.
• Deep familiarity with AI coding tools and active use of AI-assisted development workflows.
• Proficiency in Go, Rust, or TypeScript sufficient to understand and improve codebases.
• Experience owning developer tooling end-to-end: CI/CD, GitHub workflows, and local dev environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and roll out Vibe’s AI-assisted development strategy across the engineering org.
• Own adoption of coding agents and AI tooling and drive measurable gains in engineering velocity.
• Identify friction points, run experiments, and prove where AI can remove friction.
• Maintain and evolve core developer tooling across GitHub, CI/CD, and local development environments.
• Reduce time-to-first-commit for new engineers and time-to-ship for the team; keep the stack lean.
• Own the AI-centric golden path for Vibe’s software development lifecycle.
• Own security tooling and best practices; embed security into the development workflow and drive early remediation of risks.
• Define and track metrics for developer experience and report to engineering leadership.
• Treat the engineering team as your customer: gather feedback, evangelize best practices, and iterate on tooling and workflow.

Skills

Developer Experience

Tooling Strategy

AI Tooling Adoption

Experimentation

CI/CD

Developer Onboarding

Security Best Practices

Metrics & Instrumentation

Cross-functional Collaboration

Product Collaboration

Leadership

Hands-on Coding

Customer-oriented

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

MCP

GitHub

Job description

Vibe seeks an AI Lead for Developer Experience to shape an AI-first engineering workflow and manage the core tooling stack used across the engineering org. You will lead adoption of AI coding agents and tooling to boost velocity, onboarding, and security, driving measurable improvements across teams.

You will define and maintain the AI-centric developer lifecycle, collaborate with CI/CD, GitHub, and local dev environments, and ensure security is embedded early in the process.