Staff Developer Experience Engineer

🔥 15 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $199.8k - $270k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤝 Developer Relations (DevRel)

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Horizon3.ai

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

🔒 Cybersecurity

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence • SaaS

Horizon3. ai is a cybersecurity company that specializes in autonomous penetration testing through its platform, NodeZero. The company's mission is to proactively identify and address attack vectors before they can be exploited, allowing organizations to continuously assess their security posture across various environments including cloud, IoT, and on-premises systems. Founded by veterans from the US Special Operations and National Security sectors, Horizon3. ai offers a self-service SaaS solution that provides organizations with insights into their security vulnerabilities without requiring persistent or credentialed agents.

📋 Description

• Define the architecture and roadmap for local development, repository tooling, CI/CD, build systems, and release workflows • Lead high-impact engineering initiatives that reduce manual coordination and standardize the path from code change to production • Build reusable GitLab CI/CD templates, runner capabilities, developer workflows, test gates, artifact promotion, release manifests, and rollback paths • Establish sustainable practices for shared container images, build performance, reproducibility, scanning, signing, provenance, and supply-chain security • Improve developer workflow and delivery observability using setup-time, pipeline-health, release-performance, and adoption measures • Partner with Platform, Security, QA, and feature teams to make delivery foundations reliable, secure, and easy to consume • Establish standards and paved paths for developer workflows, build and release engineering, and approved AI-assisted development • Design safe agentic-development workflows integrating code review, testing, scanning, permissions, auditability, and Security requirements • Turn recurring developer friction into reusable tooling, templates, documentation, migration guidance, and runbooks • Mentor engineers, develop technical owners, and raise the engineering bar across Developer Experience and Horizon3 • Communicate technical decisions and build alignment across Platform, Application Engineering, Data Engineering, Security, QA, Product, and Program Management • Participate in design reviews, operational reviews, incident response, and continuous improvement • Establish reliable developer workflows for Horizon3’s NodeZero autonomous penetration-testing cybersecurity platform

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Developer Experience, Developer Productivity, Build/Release Engineering, Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or software engineering with substantial tooling and delivery ownership • Deep experience designing and operating CI/CD systems, preferably GitLab CI/CD and self-hosted runners • Experience with container builds, Docker or OCI images, artifact repositories, and reproducible builds • Strong understanding of Kubernetes-based development or delivery workflows • Experience implementing automated tests, security checks, release gates, progressive delivery, and rollback • Proficiency in Go and Python for automation, developer tooling, or platform services • Strong understanding of software supply-chain security, dependencies, image vulnerabilities, provenance, secrets, and least privilege • Demonstrated success leading complex initiatives across multiple teams and driving adoption of shared capabilities • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction without relying on formal authority • Internal developer platform, paved-road, service-template, or developer-portal experience preferred • Shared language/runtime base images, image signing, SBOMs, or provenance-control experience preferred • GitLab Runner fleets, CI optimization, build caching, or multi-repository release-system experience preferred • Local Kubernetes, dev containers, Docker Compose, Orbstack, Skaffold, ArgoCD, or GitOps experience preferred • AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflow experience preferred • OpenTelemetry, Datadog, pipeline telemetry, or developer-productivity metrics experience preferred • Security-sensitive, regulated, or cybersecurity experience preferred • Legally authorized to work in the United States • Must answer whether employment visa sponsorship will be required

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity package in the form of stock options for all full-time roles • Health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and their families • Flexible vacation policy • Generous parental leave • Career development opportunities • Inclusive and collaborative work culture • Remote and hybrid work models depending on role and location • Occasional company onsite meetings and team collaboration