Sr. Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer

About the Role

Navy Federal Credit Union is seeking a hands-on, visionary Senior Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer to help establish and drive the organization’s DevEx initiative.

This founding individual contributor will focus on:

• Reducing developer cognitive load
• Increasing engineering velocity
• Improving the end-to-end developer experience

You will partner with engineering leaders, product teams, and platform engineers to modernize the entire software development lifecycle—from onboarding to deployment—while embedding AI-powered automation and insights into developer workflows.

Key Responsibilities

Developer Experience & Platform Engineering

• Define and execute the Developer Experience roadmap aligned with organizational goals.
• Design, build, and maintain internal developer platforms to standardize and simplify workflows.
• Work with Internal Developer Platform (IDP) tools such as Backstage or Cortex.
• Integrate AI-powered developer tools for:
• Code generation
• Intelligent code reviews
• Automated documentation
• Evaluate and implement emerging AI development tools and APIs.
• Establish best practices for:
• Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• Local development environments
• Cloud-native deployments
• Reduce cognitive load by:
• Abstracting infrastructure complexity
• Improving release management
• Enabling self-service engineering workflows
• Implement developer self-service capabilities for provisioning, testing, and deployment.
• Improve feedback loops with product teams for faster, higher-quality releases.
• Measure and optimize developer productivity using DORA and SPACE metrics.
• Lead developer enablement initiatives, demos, and training.
• Integrate security, compliance, and observability into developer toolchains.
• Ensure responsible and secure use of AI tooling.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement.

Platform & Data Engineering

• Drive innovation across core data platforms (SQL, NoSQL, and cloud-based systems).
• Build and maintain data pipelines for internal and external sources.
• Handle complex and noisy data while ensuring consistency and reliability.
• Define cost-efficient storage strategies for CI/CD data.
• Architect reusable data assets and reference catalogs.
• Expose data through:
• Azure API Apps
• Visualization tools
• Analyze structured and unstructured data to deliver actionable insights.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and observability for developer workflows and pipelines.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years in DevOps, platform engineering, or developer experience roles.
• Proven experience delivering developer productivity initiatives at scale.
• Strong cloud-native experience:
• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Enterprise
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD pipelines
• Experience integrating AI developer tools (e.g., Copilot, OpenAI APIs).
• Knowledge of DORA and SPACE metrics.
• Proficiency in at least one language (Java, Go, Python, etc.).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Strong stakeholder communication and technical leadership skills.

Azure & Observability Stack

• Azure DevOps (ADO)
• Azure SQL and NoSQL
• Azure APIs, Event Hub, Stream Analytics
• Storage, Log Analytics
• Application Insights and KQL
• ELK stack, Splunk, or Logz.io
• Automation with PowerShell, Python, and YAML

Additional Cloud Experience

• AWS (EC2, S3, EMR)
• Cloud data migration

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in large, multi-team engineering environments.
• Knowledge of Team Topologies and cognitive load reduction.
• Experience integrating observability into developer platforms.
• Event-driven architectures and microservices.
• Secure software supply chain practices (SBOMs, artifact signing).
• BI and analytics tools (Tableau, Business Objects).
• DevOps tooling:
• Maven
• Jenkins
• Ansible
• Docker
• Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).