Staff Development Experience Engineer

About the role

This Staff Development Experience Engineer role at Galaxydigitalservices involves leading efforts to enhance the developer experience, focusing on CI/CD, GitOps, and Kubernetes. The position requires setting technical direction, breaking down roadmaps, and guiding engineers through the design and implementation of new initiatives. Key responsibilities include standardizing build, test, and release workflows using Jenkins and GitHub, operating and evolving Flux-based GitOps for environment management, and defining Helm chart standards.

The role also encompasses designing Kubernetes platform guardrails and multi-tenant patterns on EKS, while supporting other distributions. A significant aspect is building consistent developer workflows across AWS and on-premise data centers, ensuring seamless connectivity and artifact flows. The engineer will establish SLOs for platform services, integrate observability tools, and embed security and compliance into pipelines, including security scanning and policy-as-code.

Success in this position means enabling development teams through high-quality documentation, examples, and templates, as well as providing support through office hours. The engineer will partner with security, SRE, and product teams, communicating technical trade-offs and progress to leadership. A forward-thinking approach to leveraging AI tools for productivity and decision-making in daily work is also expected.

The salary for this role ranges from $112,000 to $188,000 USD, in addition to a discretionary bonus.

Skills that matter here

• AWS: This role designs consistent developer workflows spanning AWS and on-premise datacenters.
• CI/CD: The engineer will own and standardize build, test, and release workflows using Jenkins and GitHub.
• Kubernetes: Responsibilities include designing guardrails and multi-tenant patterns on EKS and supporting other Kubernetes distributions.
• Flux: The role involves operating and evolving Flux-based GitOps for environment promotion and drift detection.
• Terraform: Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform is a bonus for managing infrastructure.
• Python: Proficiency in Python is valued for platform automation tasks.

Who this role suits

• A technical leader with at least 7 years in platform, DevOps, or SRE roles, including 2+ years mentoring engineers.
• Someone with a proven history of delivering platform capabilities that are adopted by multiple engineering teams.
• An excellent communicator who can write clear design documents and effectively present technical trade-offs to various stakeholders.
• An individual who thrives on hands-on technical work across diverse environments like AWS and on-premise data centers.

From the employer

What You’ll Do:

• Lead & deliver: Set technical direction, break down roadmaps, and lead engineers through design, implementation, and rollout of DevEx initiatives.
• Own CI/CD: Standardize build/test/release workflows using Jenkins and GitHub (Actions/Apps), with reusable pipelines, shared libraries, and policy gates.
• Run GitOps at scale: Operate and evolve Flux-based GitOps for environment promotion, rollback, and drift detection across multiple clusters.
• Package & deploy: Define and maintain Helm chart standards, release processes, and documentation for service teams.
• Kubernetes platform: Design guardrails, multi-tenant patterns, and golden templates on EKS (and support for GKE/Rancher/other distros where applicable).
• Hybrid environments: Build consistent developer workflows spanning AWS and on-prem datacenters/virtualization platforms; ensure connectivity, secrets, and artifact flows work end-to-end.
• Observability & reliability: Establish SLOs for platform services; integrate logs/metrics/traces, progressive delivery, and automated rollback.
• Security & compliance: Embed security scanning, SBOMs, and policy-as-code into pipelines and cluster admission.
• Enablement: Produce high-quality docs, examples, CLI/templates, and run office hours to uplevel teams.
• Stakeholder management: Partner with Security, SRE, and product teams; communicate trade-offs and progress to engineering leadership.
• Embrace and champion the thoughtful adoption of AI to improve team performance and business outcomes.
• Leverage AI tools (e.g., generative AI, automation platforms, data copilots) to improve productivity, decision-making, and output quality in your day-to-day work.

What We’re Looking For:

• 7+ years in platform/devops/SRE roles, including 2+ years leading or mentoring engineers.
• Track record of delivering platform capabilities used by many teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management; able to write crisp design docs and present trade-offs.
• Leadership: Proven technical leadership for platform/DevEx/infra teams; mentorship and cross-team influence.
• Core tech (hands-on):
• Environments: Significant experience in AWS and On-Prem (physical datacenters/servers/virtualization platforms).
• Software delivery: CI/CD design, artifact/version strategies, trunk-based development, environment promotion.
• SRE fundamentals: Reliability, capacity planning, incident playbooks, post-incident improvement.
• Bonus Points:
• Kubernetes variants: Experience with GKE, Rancher, or other managed/self-hosted distros.
• Migrations: Cloud breadth: Exposure to Azure and Google Cloud.
• Tooling depth: Policy engines (OPA/Gatekeeper/Kyverno), service mesh, progressive delivery (Argo Rollouts/Flagger), artifact registries, secrets management (e.g., AWS Secrets Manager/HashiCorp Vault).
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform/Crossplane and configuration management.
• Programming: Proficiency in one or more languages used for platform automation (e.g., Go, Python, TypeScript).

What We Offer:

• Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
• Flexible Time Off (i.e. unlimited paid vacation days)
• Company paid Holidays (11)
• Company paid sick leave
• Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees, partners, and other dependents
• 3% 401(k) company contribution
• Generous paid Parental Leave
• Free virtual coaching and counseling sessions through Headspace
• Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry
• Free daily snacks in-office
• Smart, entrepreneurial, and fun colleagues
• Employee Resource Groups