Developer Experience Lead (Cloud Platform)

We are looking for a Developer Experience Lead to drive large-scale improvements to the development experience across the JCP.

This role focuses on making JCP engineers faster and more productive by improving build systems, CI/CD pipelines, local development workflows, tooling infrastructure, and AI pipelines. You will own the developer experience end to end – from how engineers develop, build, and test locally to how code moves through CI and reaches production. As this is a rapidly growing platform, many workflows and processes are still maturing. You will define what a great development experience looks like and drive the organization toward it.

As part of the team, you will:

• Own and drive the strategy for developer experience improvements across the entire JCP platform.

• Optimize build systems (Gradle, Nx, and others) for faster builds, better caching, and reliable reproducibility at scale.

• Set up AI development pipelines, managing context, agents, and handoffs, and leveraging tools developed within the JCP.

• Improve CI/CD pipelines – reduce build times, increase reliability, optimize resource usage, and shorten feedback loops across TeamCity and GitHub.

• Improve containerized development workflows (Docker, Dev Containers) to ensure fast and consistent local environments.

• Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the development cycle – from code commit to production deployment.

• Establish best practices, tooling standards, and shared infrastructure that enable all teams to move faster.

• Collaborate with platform and product teams to understand pain points and deliver high-impact improvements.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has extensive experience with build systems (Gradle, Maven, or Bazel) and a track record of optimizing them at scale.

• Has strong expertise in CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Jenkins, or similar) and knows how to ensure high performance and reliability.

• Has hands-on experience with Docker and containerized development workflows.

• Understands the full software development life cycle and can reason about developer productivity holistically.

• Is able to drive cross-team initiatives and influence engineering practices across a large organization.

• Is motivated by making other engineers more productive and removing friction from their daily work.

We'd be particularly thrilled if you:

• Have experience improving the developer experience at scale in a platform or infrastructure organization.

• Have worked on AI-driven development pipelines.

• Have expertise in build caching, remote execution, and incremental build strategies.

• Have contributed to or maintained open-source build tooling or CI/CD infrastructure.

• Enjoy digging into performance problems and turning slow, flaky processes into fast, reliable ones.