About the role

A Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience takes ownership of the developer workflow, from early design to project delivery. They select or build the right tools to remove obstacles and reduce friction for other engineers. They collaborate with other engineers from the whole organization to understand their pain points and address them accordingly, while maintaining high standards of quality and rigorous engineering practices. They contribute to and execute roadmaps for both short term and long-term solutions to streamline the software development lifecycle.
Here’s What You’ll Be Doing

Fostering a collaborative environment by bringing people together to come up with better designs and approaches to complex problems 
Collaborate with engineers and leadership to deeply understand developer workflows and systematically improve them
Lead cross-functional projects that result in reliability, efficiency, and overall cost-savings wins
Champion, own and implement improvements to coding standards and practices
Design, build, and maintain developer tools
Finding practical technological solutions
Adopt and deploy off-the-shelf tools to reduce developer friction
Analyzing and estimating work in an agile environment
You’ll be working on cutting edge programmatic ad tech systems that handle hundreds of billions of transactions every day

Here's What You Need

Knowledge of Python and/or Go, with a focus on the surrounding ecosystem of tools, libraries, and best practices
Experience developing CI/CD pipelines used by multiple teams and products (preferably GitLab specific experience)
Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes
Comfortable presenting milestones, accomplishments, and general updates related to developer experience to the engineering organization
Designing, developing, maintaining, and documenting internal tools for internal and external customers
Broad experience across many technologies and being comfortable working in new areas
You are team-oriented and embrace change.
Excellent problem-solving skills, the ability to think differently, and an understanding that compromise, negotiation, and practicality are important qualities
Understanding and hands on experience with all aspects of developing end-to-end web applications and microservices. This includes architecting, coding, debugging, optimizing/refactoring, automated testing, and deploying of APIs
Modular, extensible, reusable, maintainable, performant, and testable code
Automated testing platforms and unit tests
General computer science / engineering knowledge: Algorithms, design patterns, software architecture, etc.
Experience building, maintaining, and delivering short term and long-term roadmaps