Developer Experience Engineer


Chicago
Permanent
USD175000 - USD250000
Financial Technology
PR/539313_1743018056
Developer Experience Engineer

An elite trading firm is looking to bring on a Software Engineer to their developer experience team.

As a Developer Experience Engineer, you will navigate novel build challenges, refine observability and alerting systems, and build great developer workflows. You will ensure seamless interactions with code, provide essential developer tools, and consult on standardized development practices.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with leaders, trading teams, and developers to amplify the impact of the engineering team across the company.
  • Manage and improve services and products provided by the Developer Experience team, including source control, build artifact repositories, static analysis tools, and other software delivery tools.
  • Investigate and resolve complex systems or build issues during support rotations, fostering strong relationships with other development teams.
  • Operate in a hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure environment, utilizing infra-as-code patterns to ensure reliable management and scalability of services.

Required Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of experience as a Software engineer focused on improving developer productivity
  • Bachelors degree in computer science or related field
  • Technical Skills: Proficient with Linux, Kubernetes, Python, Go, Prometheus, and Grafana.
  • Automation: Experience automating development processes.

This is a hybrid role in the firms Chicago office.

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