Staff Developer Experience Engineer - Remote/Hybrid, Equity

Hidden Jobs; United States; Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision & dental insurance

Flexible vacation policy

Parental leave

Hybrid/remote work

Job summary

Hidden Jobs seeks a staff-level engineer to shape how a cybersecurity organization builds, tests, releases, and operates software. You will lead Developer Experience, owning CI/CD, build systems, container images, artifact promotion, and release workflows, with cross-team influence to improve delivery quality.

You will mentor engineers, drive adoption of shared capabilities, and communicate decisions across Platform, Security, QA, Product, and Program Management.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Developer Experience or related fields with tooling ownership.
• Deep experience designing and operating CI/CD, preferably GitLab CI/CD.
• Hands-on container builds and reproducible builds.
• Strong Kubernetes development or delivery knowledge.
• Proficiency in Go and Python for automation.
• Proven cross-team leadership and clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Define the architecture and roadmap for local development, tooling, CI/CD, build systems, and release workflows.
• Lead initiatives standardizing the path from code change to production and reduce manual coordination.
• Build reusable CI/CD templates, runner capabilities, developer workflows, test gates, artifact promotion paths, release manifests, and rollback procedures.
• Establish sustainable practices for shared container images, build performance, reproducibility, scanning, signing, provenance, and supply-chain security.
• Design safe AI-assisted development workflows that integrate cleanly with code review, testing, scanning, permissions, and auditability.
• Mentor engineers, develop technical owners, and communicate complex decisions across Platform, Security, QA, Product, and Program Management.

Skills

CI/CD systems

GitLab CI/CD

Docker/OCI images

Kubernetes workflows

Go

Python

Cross-team leadership

Communication skills

Tools

GitLab Runner

Job description

Hidden Jobs seeks a staff-level engineer to shape how a cybersecurity organization builds, tests, releases, and operates software. You will lead Developer Experience, owning CI/CD, build systems, container images, artifact promotion, and release workflows, with cross-team influence to improve delivery quality.

You will mentor engineers, drive adoption of shared capabilities, and communicate decisions across Platform, Security, QA, Product, and Program Management.