Senior Developer Experience Engineer
Role Overview
A leading technology organization in Abu Dhabi is hiring a Senior Developer Experience Engineer for a newly established DevEx team.
The role builds and enhances an internal developer platform, AI-powered tools, automation, and self-service capabilities to improve engineering productivity.
Work spans multiple engineering teams and technology stacks in highly secure, on-premise, and air-gapped environments.
Key Skills for This Role
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About the opportunity
A leading technology organization in Abu Dhabi is hiring a Senior Developer Experience Engineer for a newly established DevEx team.
The role builds and enhances an internal developer platform, AI-powered tools, automation, and self-service capabilities to improve engineering productivity.
Work spans multiple engineering teams and technology stacks in highly secure, on-premise, and air-gapped environments.
Key responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain internal developer platforms, tools, and workflow automation.
- Evaluate and integrate AI tools for code generation, review, and testing.
- Implement and manage LLMOps and AIOps solutions in secure on-premise environments.
- Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines, build processes, and deployment automation.
- Build developer-facing applications, self-service portals, and command-line tools.
- Integrate model management, training workflows, and dataset management.
- Create dashboards for AI performance, reliability, latency, and adoption.
- Collaborate with DevOps, Infrastructure, Architecture, and Software Engineering teams.
- Drive adoption of tools and technologies across engineering teams.
Key requirements
- Strong background in software engineering, platform engineering, developer experience, or DevOps.
- Experience developing internal tools, automation solutions, or developer platforms.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or Shell scripting.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and containerization.
- Experience with LLMOps, AIOps, or AI-powered development tools.
- Experience in on-premise, air-gapped, or highly secure infrastructure environments.
- Familiarity with GitLab, Terraform, Docker, and Linux.
- Strong understanding of modern software development, testing, and deployment practices.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline; MSc or equivalent preferred.
- Java and Node.js are listed as nice-to-have languages.
Technology stack
- Languages: Python, Go, and Shell; Java and Node.js are nice to have.
- DevOps and infrastructure: GitLab, Terraform, containerization, Proxmox, and Ubuntu.
- Build and package management: Conan, Gradle, NPM, and Yocto.
- AI: LLMOps, AIOps, Agentic AI, and AI-assisted development.
Location and work arrangement
- The role is listed as onsite in Abu Dhabi.
Why apply
- Join a newly established Developer Experience team and influence its technical direction.
- Work with emerging AI technologies, automation, and internal developer platforms.
- Own solutions that affect engineering productivity and contribute to complex security-focused projects.
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