Senior Staff Developer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead DevEx and SDLC technical direction and design scalable agentic systems for the software development lifecycle.
• Build reusable developer-platform architecture on public cloud and collaborate on organizational DevEx and AI-DLC strategy.
• Translate business needs into adoptable solutions; address developer environments, CI/CD supply chains, authentication, and quality gates.
• Drive tool adoption, diagnose friction, and establish shared tools and components as organizational standards.
• Embed DevSecOps and cloud-native security; create documentation, enablement guides, and implementation processes.
• Build proof of concepts, mentor senior developers, and participate in architectural reviews.

Requirements

• Proven hands-on DevEx experience building internal developer platforms, golden-path templates, automated quality gates, and shared engineering component libraries.
• 8+ years of scalable software development experience with software design accountability.
• 2+ years in technical leadership driving organization-wide platform capabilities or engineering productivity.
• Expertise in DevEx, SDLC tooling, or engineering productivity systems, plus hands-on AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, and LLM tooling.
• Strong cloud infrastructure knowledge; API-first design, loosely coupled systems, and modern software architecture.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code, DevSecOps, and CI/CD; coding experience in Python and/or Java.
• Familiarity with AWS or GCP; Azure is a bonus. FastAPI or Spring Boot are cited as familiar frameworks.
• Experience integrating systems such as Jira, CI, and observability; strong communication, influence, and ambiguity-navigation skills.
• Commitment to secure, ethical delivery and an inclusive engineering culture.

Workplace

• Benevity describes its work approach as flexible hybrid, with no set in-office time for people near an office.

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