Responsibilities:

• Drive Productivity Strategy: Shape technical strategy across the developer platform, CI/CD, build and test infrastructure, tooling, and AI-assisted development.
• Build Bridges: Connect Platform, Application, Product, Security, and Operations to find and remove friction that slows engineers down.
• Champion a Productivity Culture: Evangelize measurement, golden paths, and continuous improvement of the developer experience.
• Build the Internal Developer Platform: Design self-service platforms, golden paths, and paved roads for teams to provision, build, and deploy.
• Optimize the Inner Loop: Deliver fast local and cloud development environments, dev containers, and quick feedback.
• Modernize CI/CD and Build Systems: Deliver fast, reliable pipelines with build caching and incremental builds.
• Instrument Developer Productivity: Establish metrics and observability for the software delivery lifecycle.
• Integrate AI into Development: Bring AI code assistants, AI-assisted review, test generation, and agentic development workflows into the everyday toolchain.
• Ensure Platform Reliability: Keep the productivity platform, CI/CD, and developer tooling resilient and performant.
• Partner Externally: Build relationships with vendors, open-source communities, and industry peers.
• Partner Internally: Build relationships across teams to understand technical and business needs.
• Mentor & Develop: Provide technical leadership and coaching to elevate capabilities.
• Stay Future-Ready: Keep abreast of emerging trends in developer productivity, platform engineering, and AI-assisted development.

Requirements:

• 10+ years in engineering productivity, developer platforms, DevOps, build/release, or infrastructure engineering with demonstrated technical leadership progression.
• BS or MS in Engineering, STEM, or related field.
• Proven track record designing and implementing developer platforms, tooling, or CI/CD and build systems that serve multiple teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building internal developer platforms, platform-as-a-service offerings, or developer portals.
• Experience in productivity measurement and delivery practices, including DORA metrics, SLOs, quality gates, and CI/CD.
• Cross-organizational influence with the ability to build consensus and drive adoption of technical strategies and tooling.
• Expertise with CI/CD and GitOps platforms, modern build systems, and cloud-native platforms.
• Proficiency with IaC tools, cloud-native platforms, and programming languages.
• Experience instrumenting the SDLC with observability tooling.
• Hands-on experience integrating AI-assisted and agentic development tools.
• Familiarity with DevEx research methods.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short and long-term disability coverage.
• Basic life insurance.
• Paid time away.
• Optional 10 paid days per year to volunteer.
• Annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
• Performance-based incentive pay for sales roles.

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