Justworks - Senior Developer Experience Engineer

• You are a tooling-focused engineer who obsesses over developer productivity. You’ve built and maintained CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and automation that makes engineering teams faster. You understand that the best developer tools disappear into the background - they just work. You’re equally comfortable debugging a flaky GitHub Actions workflow and designing a new internal CLI. You care deeply about reducing friction and cognitive load for your fellow engineers. • This is a foundational role. You’ll be one of the first dedicated engineers on a platform organization supporting 300+ engineers. You’ll shape not just the technical foundations but the culture and practices of the team. • Your Success Profile • In addition, all team members focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS: • COGIS • Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others. • Camaraderie • Openness - Your default is to be open. You’re willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others. • Openness • Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude. • Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you’ll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example. • Integrity • Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” • Simplicity • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience • 3+ years of experience building developer tooling, CI/CD systems, or infrastructure automation • Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions strongly preferred) • Experience with developer portals or internal platform tooling (Backstage strongly preferred; Cortex, Port, or similar also valuable) • Experience with Kubernetes deployments and container orchestration • Proficiency in at least two programming languages; polyglot mindset valued • Frontend development skills - you’ll be building portal UI and developer-facing tools • Strong systems thinking and ability to design for scale and reliability • Excellent written communication - you document as you build • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, or similar) • Experience with feature management systems (LaunchDarkly, Split, etc.) • Familiarity with workflow engines (Temporal, etc.) • Background in developer productivity metrics and measurement • Experience configuring or rolling out AI coding assistants (Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) • Technologies • Technologies • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, CircleCI • CI/CD: • Infrastructure: Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker • Infrastructure: • Languages: Go (primary), Python, TypeScript, Ruby - whatever fits the problem • Languages: • Platforms: Developer portals, feature flagging systems, workflow engines • Platforms: • Observability: DataDog, CloudWatch • Observability: • The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $167,500.00 - $211,500.00 per year. • #LI-DG2 #LI-Hybrid • Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location.  Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location. • For more information about Justworks’ Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks. • Diversity At Justworks • Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.