Senior Software Engineer - Developer Portal & DX, Remote

Bixal; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K matching

Parental Leave

Medical/dental/vision benefits

Paid Time Off

11 Paid holidays

Job summary

Bixal is seeking a Senior Developer Experience Engineer to build and maintain the self-service developer portal and tooling for a federal platform. You’ll work closely with UX researchers and content specialists to translate research into instrumented software within sprint cadences.

You will shape cross-platform workflows, automate pipelines, and implement IAM controls to enable secure self-service, enhancing developer experience across teams and projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent with 8+ years of related experience.
• Hands-on experience designing and automating cross-platform workflows spanning source control, CI/CD, 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 and audit logging.

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).
• Integrate identity, access management, provisioning, and compliance controls across SaaS platforms for 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.
• Collaborate closely with the UX and documentation specialists on the team.
• Other relevant duties as qualified and trained to perform.

Skills

Cross-platform workflows

Automation patterns

Identity & access management

Observability

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

GitLab

Jira

Confluence

Datadog

Figma

Job description

Bixal is seeking a Senior Developer Experience Engineer to build and maintain the self-service developer portal and tooling for a federal platform. You’ll work closely with UX researchers and content specialists to translate research into instrumented software within sprint cadences.

You will shape cross-platform workflows, automate pipelines, and implement IAM controls to enable secure self-service, enhancing developer experience across teams and projects.