Senior Platform & Developer Experience Engineer

Bixal; Maryland; On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bixal seeks a skilled developer experience engineer to build and maintain a self-service portal and developer‑facing tooling for a federal platform. You’ll work closely with UX researchers and content specialists to turn research-backed patterns into instrumented software within sprint cadences.

You will design automated cross-platform workflows, implement reusable automation patterns, and integrate IAM controls to enable secure self-service.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience designing and automating cross-platform workflows spanning source control, CI/CD pipelines, issue tracking, observability, and collaboration tools.
• Proven ability to build reusable automation patterns (APIs, bots, webhooks, event-driven services, IaC, internal tooling).
• Experience integrating identity, access management, provisioning, and compliance controls across SaaS platforms for secure self-service.
• Strong capability in monitoring and maintaining workflow reliability, including failure detection, retry strategies, and audit logging.
• Able to independently deliver platform improvements that measurably improve developer experience while preventing tool sprawl and fragmentation.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Tier 4 High Risk Public Trust clearance.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the self-service developer portal and developer-facing tooling for a federal agency’s platform.
• Design and automate cross-platform workflows spanning source control, CI/CD, issue tracking, observability, and collaboration tools to reduce manual developer toil.
• Build reusable automation patterns (APIs, bots, webhooks, event-driven services, IaC, internal tooling) that standardize engineering workflows.
• Integrate identity, access management, provisioning, and compliance controls across SaaS platforms to enable secure self-service.
• Monitor and maintain workflow reliability, including failure detection, retry strategies, and audit logging.
• Translate research-backed interaction patterns and onboarding flows into working, instrumented software.
• Deliver platform improvements that measurably improve developer experience (reduced setup time, faster deployment cycles, improved release confidence).
• Collaborate closely with the UX and documentation specialists on the team.
• Other relevant duties as qualified and trained to perform.

Skills

Cross-platform workflows design

Automation patterns

Identity & access management

Observability monitoring

Collaboration with UX/docs

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

GitLab

Jira

Confluence

Datadog

Figma

Job description

Bixal seeks a skilled developer experience engineer to build and maintain a self-service portal and developer‑facing tooling for a federal platform. You’ll work closely with UX researchers and content specialists to turn research-backed patterns into instrumented software within sprint cadences.

You will design automated cross-platform workflows, implement reusable automation patterns, and integrate IAM controls to enable secure self-service.