Senior Developer Experience Engineer

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August 15

☕ Washington – Remote

Although this job is listed in Washington, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $170k - $220k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤝 Developer Relations (DevRel)

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Virtru

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Cybersecurity • Compliance • Software

Virtru is a data security company that specializes in secure collaboration and file sharing solutions. Their platform integrates with popular applications like Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 to provide encrypted file sharing and email protection. With a focus on data-centric security, Virtru empowers organizations across various sectors, including finance, healthcare, and government, to maintain control over sensitive data while ensuring compliance with strict security regulations.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2012

🔒 Cybersecurity

📋 Compliance

📋 Description

• SDK Excellence: Drive the development and improvement of our multi-language SDK portfolio (Go, Java, JavaScript), ensuring idiomatic, consistent interfaces that follow each language's best practices • Developer Onboarding: Own the critical "time-to-first-value" experience, making it effortless for developers to protect and unprotect their first piece of data • Technical Documentation: Create comprehensive, "cookbook-style" guides and tutorials that enable developers to succeed quickly with clear, working examples • Community Engagement: Serve as a technical contact for our open-source community, managing feedback and contributions to build a thriving ecosystem • Success Measurement: Define and track key developer experience metrics including time-to-first-value, SDK adoption rates, and developer satisfaction scores • Developer Advocacy: Gather and synthesize developer feedback to influence product roadmap and engineering priorities across the organization • Foundation Building: Help establish processes, standards, and culture that will scale as we grow our DX practice • Virtruvian qualities: Thinking outside of the box to respectfully challenge your teammates and managers in the pursuit of excellence • Virtruvian qualities: Strong sense of urgency with an action-oriented mindset • Virtruvian qualities: Able to collaborate and adapt to shifting priorities as business needs evolve • Virtruvian qualities: Comfortable with asynchronous communication including slack, email, zoom, etc.

🎯 Requirements

• 5-7 years of software engineering experience with a focus on developer-facing tools, SDKs, or APIs • SDK or Developer Tools Experience: Hands-on experience building and maintaining SDKs, developer tools, or APIs in production environments • Multi-language Proficiency: Strong programming skills in Go, Java, and/or JavaScript with the ability to write idiomatic code in each language • API Design Expertise: Familiarity with API design principles, developer workflow tools, and best practices for developer-facing interfaces • Developer Experience or Developer Relations background with a track record of improving developer adoption and satisfaction • Community engagement experience working with open-source projects, managing developer feedback, or building developer communities • Technical writing excellence with the ability to create clear, compelling documentation, blogs, and tutorials • Strategic thinking combined with hands-on execution—you're equally comfortable contributing to long-term vision and planning or writing code • Exceptional communication skills for collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the organization • Self-starter mentality with the ability to build something from scratch with minimal guidance

🏖️ Benefits

• A Flexible PTO policy — we strongly encourage you to take time off (in addition to 14 holidays) to ensure that you are getting the proper time needed to unplug and recharge. • A $1,500 annual Learning & Development Stipend focused on providing you the resources to continually learn and professionally grow. • Frequent company-sponsored team celebrations that provide ample opportunities to connect with teammates and be social! • Access to an Employee Assistance Program • Access to Headspace, a mental health app tailored to your specific needs. • A flat 3% contribution to your retirement account • A high degree of flexibility — Have an appointment, errand, or family emergency to take care of? Hop to it! We give you the time and space to take care of you and your own first. • Competitive compensation • Generous parental, medical, and bereavement policies • 401K contribution and stock options • Full medical, dental, and vision benefits • New Hire Swag and IT Welcome boxes • Structured semi-annual 360° performance reviews