Senior Developer Experience Engineer

About The Role

The Senior Developer Experience Engineer is a role in our newly formed Experience team within the Product Engineering department. In this role, you will play a key part in improving the experience for developers using our stack. From governing APIs, such as the Orchestration Cluster REST API, to shaping and creating development tools, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to leave your mark on the Developer Experience we want to provide to our users!

In this role, you have the opportunity to have a significant impact on our adoption in the industry, with a strong focus on the developer persona. As a developer yourself, you will internally advocate and contribute hands-on to a well-crafted experience that seamlessly meets the expectations of other developers.

What You’ll Be Doing

• REST API Governance
• Steered the decision process on an API proposal
• Resolved shortcomings of the current API Governance Process on cross-team collaboration
• Extended Internal Developer Guidance on building new endpoints on our REST API
• SDK/Development tools
• Setup automated QA for client artifacts (Java, Javascript) and the system to ensure user-facing guarantees are met: semVer Public API guarantees, back- and/or forward compatibility
• Actively contributed to the development of new native Clients (e.g., Python or C#), e.g. adding/contributing to a job worker framework
• Improved existing clients (Java, Javascript) in one of the following ways: added a QoL improvement to the client - e.g., a generic backoff mechanism

What You Bring

• Ability and/or willingness to use our product
• Extensive experience (5 years+) writing and maintaining production code in Java, C#, JavaScript, or Python - being opinionated on what a good Developer Experience entails
• Extensive experience (3 years+) with building coherent server APIs with OpenAPI and utilizing language-specific code generators to create and efficiently maintain native clients
• Proven experience (3 years+) writing documentation, code samples, examples, videos, or blog posts tailored towards a developer community or another external user audience
• Ability to work asynchronously with teams and cross-functional groups across time zones to accomplish a singular goal
• To be truly successful in this role, you have a strong sense of “manager of one” - unblocking yourself when you're able, and when you're not, directly reaching out to the people who can help.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with BPMN products

Compensation

We offer competitive, fair, and transparent compensation. Salary ranges are location-based, with Standard and Major markets (global tech hubs) reflecting local competition.

The Annual Total Target Cash (base salary + 100% variable target, where applicable) shown below spans from the minimum in a Standard market to the maximum in a Major market. Final offers depend on skills, experience, and location, and we typically hire in the first half of the range to allow room for growth:

• United States: $143,800.00 to $231,900.00
• Germany: €92,900.00 to €153,700.00
• United Kingdom: £90,300.00 to £148,500.00
• Singapore: S$178,600.00 to S$267,900.00

If you’re based elsewhere, you’ll be hired via our global employer partner, and your Talent Acquisition Partner will provide a personalized Total Rewards Calculator after your first interview.

Benefits & Perks

We invest in your wellbeing, growth, and ability to connect, along with perks that support you no matter where you’re based. Our benefits are globally designed and locally delivered where applicable.

• Remote & Flexible: Work from anywhere with the setup that suits you, home office budget, co-working space support, and flexible time off to recharge when you need it.
• In Person Connection: We invest in meaningful face time through our Annual Kickoff, team offsites, and Connection Budgets, including contributing to meetups while travelling, and local gatherings with fellow team members.
• Health & Wellbeing: Access locally tailored healthcare, Modern Health for global mental wellbeing, and an annual fitness reimbursement.
• Financial Security: Retirement and pension plans (often with company contributions), plus life and disability insurance where relevant.
• Professional Growth: Up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self-driven learning: courses, certifications, books, you decide!