Lead Developer Experience Engineer

Zeta Global

full-time

Posted on: 9/25/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $150,000 - $200,000 per year

Senior

DockerGoJavaJenkinsJestJUnitKubernetesLinuxMacOSPythonTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Design, build, and maintain local and remote developer environments that are fast, reliable, and consistent
Maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines for speed, reliability, and cost-efficiency
Streamline developer workflows to reduce friction and enable rapid, safe delivery of features
Build, maintain, and evolve testing environments and frameworks
Own the end-to-end developer onboarding flow, ensuring engineers can be productive from day one
Proactively analyze, debug, and resolve complex environment issues across build systems, infrastructure, and tooling
Champion metrics and observability around developer productivity (build times, test times, CI/CD stability, onboarding duration, etc.) and continuously drive improvements
Collaborate closely with developers, QA, SRE, and DevOps teams to identify pain points and implement scalable solutions
Advocate for best practices in code quality, testing, and deployment as part of the developer experience charter
Introduce AI-powered enhancements where they provide clear productivity gains, such as intelligent testing, onboarding automation, or assisted code reviews

Proven experience improving developer productivity in medium to large engineering organizations
Strong expertise with macOS and Linux development environments
Proficiency in Bash, Python, and TypeScript
Familiarity with Go or Java is a plus
Solid experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS) and build optimization techniques
Familiarity with build systems and dependency management tools (pnpm, npm, pip)
Experience with testing frameworks and environments (pytest, Jest/Vitest, JUnit/Testcontainers, etc.)
Familiarity with linting and static analysis tools (SonarQube, SpotBugs, Checkstyle, ESLint, Flake8)
Strong knowledge of CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or CircleCI) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
Demonstrated experience leveraging frameworks like DORA and SPACE to measure and improve developer experience
Experience designing and supporting progressive delivery workflows (feature flags, canary releases, blue/green deploys) and rollback strategies
Excellent debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills across complex systems
Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence and drive change across teams
Hands-on builder mindset—willing to roll up your sleeves, experiment, and deliver results independently