Virtru

Senior Developer Experience Engineer

Virtru

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Washington

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Salary

💰 $170,000 - $220,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

GoJavaJavaScript

About the role

  • SDK Excellence: Drive the development and improvement of our multi-language SDK portfolio (Go, Java, JavaScript), ensuring idiomatic, consistent interfaces that follow each language's best practices
  • Developer Onboarding: Own the critical "time-to-first-value" experience, making it effortless for developers to protect and unprotect their first piece of data
  • Technical Documentation: Create comprehensive, "cookbook-style" guides and tutorials that enable developers to succeed quickly with clear, working examples
  • Community Engagement: Serve as a technical contact for our open-source community, managing feedback and contributions to build a thriving ecosystem
  • Success Measurement: Define and track key developer experience metrics including time-to-first-value, SDK adoption rates, and developer satisfaction scores
  • Developer Advocacy: Gather and synthesize developer feedback to influence product roadmap and engineering priorities across the organization
  • Foundation Building: Help establish processes, standards, and culture that will scale as we grow our DX practice
  • Virtruvian qualities: Thinking outside of the box to respectfully challenge your teammates and managers in the pursuit of excellence
  • Virtruvian qualities: Strong sense of urgency with an action-oriented mindset
  • Virtruvian qualities: Able to collaborate and adapt to shifting priorities as business needs evolve
  • Virtruvian qualities: Comfortable with asynchronous communication including slack, email, zoom, etc.

Requirements

  • 5-7 years of software engineering experience with a focus on developer-facing tools, SDKs, or APIs
  • SDK or Developer Tools Experience: Hands-on experience building and maintaining SDKs, developer tools, or APIs in production environments
  • Multi-language Proficiency: Strong programming skills in Go, Java, and/or JavaScript with the ability to write idiomatic code in each language
  • API Design Expertise: Familiarity with API design principles, developer workflow tools, and best practices for developer-facing interfaces
  • Developer Experience or Developer Relations background with a track record of improving developer adoption and satisfaction
  • Community engagement experience working with open-source projects, managing developer feedback, or building developer communities
  • Technical writing excellence with the ability to create clear, compelling documentation, blogs, and tutorials
  • Strategic thinking combined with hands-on execution—you're equally comfortable contributing to long-term vision and planning or writing code
  • Exceptional communication skills for collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the organization
  • Self-starter mentality with the ability to build something from scratch with minimal guidance