Galaxy

Head of Developer Experience

Galaxy

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSGoJenkinsPythonTerraform

About the role

  • Serve as the primary champion of developer experience, setting a long-term DevEx vision and roadmap.
  • Work directly with engineers to deeply understand pain points, workflow inefficiencies, and systemic barriers to productivity.
  • Translate developer problems into scalable tooling, automation, and platform features.
  • Lead and mentor a high-performing CI/CD engineering team responsible for all build, deploy, and release automation.
  • Architect and deliver a frictionless, touchless deployment platform supporting rapid, safe, auditable releases into production.
  • Implement industry-grade release automation, rollback strategies, environment standardization, and compliance guardrails.
  • Ensure all developer platforms, pipelines, and supporting infrastructure meet rigorous availability, continuity, and DR requirements.
  • Partner with SRE and Infra teams to build resilient, self-healing, observable systems.
  • Own the creation and maintenance of internal developer tools, SDKs, frameworks, and automation.
  • Ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of development infrastructure.
  • Establish and enforce engineering best practices across teams, including documentation and training.
  • Partner with Security to embed secure-by-default patterns into the platform.
  • Partner with Product to align DevEx improvements with business priorities.
  • Work with leadership to define KPIs for developer productivity and continuously measure impact.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of engineering experience, including senior-level ownership of DevEx, Developer Platforms, DevOps, or CI/CD.
  • Demonstrated success leading engineering teams.
  • Expert-level proficiency in Python, Go, Bash or similar languages.
  • Deep experience with AWS and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible).
  • Mastery of modern CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, FluxCD, Harness).
  • Strong background in production release automation, deployment safety, rollback strategy, and release governance.
  • Experience in financial services, crypto, or other regulated, high-security environments.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to operate across a broad technical and executive audience.
  • Highly execution-driven with a track record of delivering measurable improvements.
Benefits
  • 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
  • Competitive family planning benefits for US employees
  • Generous paid Parental Leave
  • Free virtual coaching and counseling sessions through Headspace
  • Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry
  • Smart, entrepreneurial, and fun colleagues
  • Employee Resource Groups
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonGoBashAWSTerraformAnsibleJenkinsGitHub ActionsFluxCDHarness
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationexecution-drivenmentoringcollaboration