Senior Developer Experience Engineer — DevTools & CI/CD (Remote)

Openkrill; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive Team

Growth Opportunities

Innovative Culture

Hybrid & Remote Work

Competitive Compensation

Job summary

Horizon3 seeks an experienced Senior Staff Developer Experience Engineer to shape how engineers build, test, release, and operate software across the NodeZero platform. You will lead the Developer Experience team, define roadmaps, and drive reusable tooling, pipelines, and secure-by-default conventions.

In this hands-on leadership role, you will mentor engineers, enable cross-team collaboration, and raise engineering standards for deployment, testing, and observability, while advancing

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Developer Experience, Developer Productivity, Build/Release Engineering, Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or software engineering with substantial tooling and delivery ownership.
• Deep experience designing and operating CI/CD systems, preferably GitLab CI/CD and self-hosted runners.
• Experience with container builds, Docker or OCI images, artifact repositories, and reproducible builds.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes-based development or delivery workflows.
• Experience implementing automated tests, security checks, release gates, progressive delivery, and rollback.
• Proficiency in Go and Python for automation, developer tooling, or platform services.
• Strong understanding of software supply-chain security, dependencies, image vulnerabilities, provenance, secrets, and least privilege.
• Demonstrated success leading complex initiatives across multiple teams and driving adoption of shared capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Define the architecture and roadmap for local development, repository tooling, CI/CD, build systems, and release workflows.
• Lead high-impact initiatives across engineering that reduce manual coordination and standardize the path from code change to production.
• Build reusable GitLab CI/CD templates, runner capabilities, developer workflows, test gates, artifact promotion, release manifests, and rollback paths.
• Establish sustainable practices for shared container images, build performance, reproducibility, scanning, signing, provenance, and supply-chain security.
• Improve developer workflow and delivery observability through useful measures of setup time, pipeline health, release performance, and adoption.
• Partner with Platform, Security, QA, and feature teams to make delivery foundations reliable, secure, and easy to consume.

Skills

GitLab CI/CD

Go

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

Automation

CI/CD tooling

Security

Tools

GitLab Runner fleets

CI/CD templates

ArgoCD

Docker/OCI images

Job description

Horizon3 seeks an experienced Senior Staff Developer Experience Engineer to shape how engineers build, test, release, and operate software across the NodeZero platform. You will lead the Developer Experience team, define roadmaps, and drive reusable tooling, pipelines, and secure-by-default conventions.

In this hands-on leadership role, you will mentor engineers, enable cross-team collaboration, and raise engineering standards for deployment, testing, and observability, while advancing