Overview
On Site
Full Time
Skills
Innovation
Workflow
IT Strategy
Scalability
Development Testing
Cloud Computing
Orchestration
Mentorship
IT Management
Collaboration
Partnership
Software Engineering
Java
Performance Tuning
Amazon Web Services
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Jenkins
GitHub
Build Tools
Apache Maven
Gradle
Scripting
Python
Bash
Microservices
Docker
Kubernetes
Problem Solving
Conflict Resolution
Technical Direction
Productivity
Performance Monitoring
Open Source
Thought Leadership
Jersey
Palo Alto
Job Details
Job Title: Distinguished Engineer - Developer Tools & Productivity
Location: Palo Alto, CA or Jersey City, NJ
Employment Type: Full-Time, Individual Contributor
About the Role
An elite US Bank is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to join our Developer Tools & Productivity team. This role is critical to enabling engineering excellence across the organization by designing, building, and optimizing tools, frameworks, and platforms that empower thousands of developers. You will be a hands-on technical leader, driving innovation and best practices in developer experience, build systems, and cloud-native workflows.
Key Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
This is an onsite position working 5 days per week onsite in the firms Jersey City or Palo Alto office. At this time the team is unable to provide visa sponsorship.
Location: Palo Alto, CA or Jersey City, NJ
Employment Type: Full-Time, Individual Contributor
About the Role
An elite US Bank is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to join our Developer Tools & Productivity team. This role is critical to enabling engineering excellence across the organization by designing, building, and optimizing tools, frameworks, and platforms that empower thousands of developers. You will be a hands-on technical leader, driving innovation and best practices in developer experience, build systems, and cloud-native workflows.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and Develop high-performance developer tools, frameworks, and automation solutions to improve productivity and code quality.
- Lead Technical Strategy for developer experience initiatives, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security across the enterprise.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to identify pain points and deliver solutions that streamline development, testing, and deployment.
- Architect Cloud-Native Solutions leveraging AWS services for CI/CD pipelines, build orchestration, and developer environments.
- Champion Best Practices in software engineering, including code quality, performance optimization, and secure development.
- Mentor and Influence senior engineers and stakeholders through technical leadership and thought partnership.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a proven track record of delivering complex systems at scale.
- Expert-level Java development skills, including deep knowledge of JVM internals, performance tuning, and modern frameworks.
- Strong AWS experience, including services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS, and IAM.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CodePipeline) and build tools (e.g., Maven, Gradle).
- Proficiency in automation and scripting (Python, Bash, or similar).
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Exceptional problem-solving skills and ability to influence technical direction without formal authority.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with developer productivity platforms or internal developer portals.
- Familiarity with observability tools and performance monitoring.
- Contributions to open-source projects or thought leadership in developer tooling.
This is an onsite position working 5 days per week onsite in the firms Jersey City or Palo Alto office. At this time the team is unable to provide visa sponsorship.
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