Staff Developer Experience Engineer

About Onebrief

Onebrief is collaboration and AI-powered workflow software designed specifically for military staffs. By transforming this work, Onebrief makes the staff as a whole superhuman - meaning faster, smarter, and more efficient.

We take ownership, seek excellence, and play to win with the seriousness and camaraderie of an Olympic team. Onebrief operates as an all-remote company, though many of our employees work alongside our customers at military commands around the world.

Founded in 2019 by a group of experienced planners, today, Onebrief’s team spans veterans from all forces and global organizations, and technologists from leading-edge software companies. We’ve raised $320m+ from top-tier investors, including Battery Ventures, General Catalyst, Sapphire Ventures, Insight Partners, and Human Capital, and today, Onebrief is valued at $2.15B. With this continued growth, Onebrief is able to make an impact where it matters most.

Role Overview

We are building a brand new Developer Experience (DevEx) Team as a core strategic investment in our engineering organization's growth and efficiency. As a Staff Engineer, you will be a technical leader with a massive multiplier effect, setting the vision for how hundreds of engineers interact with our codebase. You will be the primary architect of the Golden Path, ensuring that from the moment a developer opens their IDE to the moment their code hits production, the process is seamless, fast, and intuitive. You will own the local development environment, lead our AI consolidation strategy, and define the standards for how we build software at scale.

Key Responsibilities

The Golden Path and Local Development

• Standardize the IDE: Create and maintain the Golden Path for developers, including recommended plugins, configurations, and internal tooling to reduce cognitive load.

• Local Experience: Own the bootstrapping process for new services. Optimize local Docker workflows and resource allocation to ensure dev environments are fast and reliable.

• Dev Tooling: Lead the architectural transition of our build systems (migrating to Turborepo) to drastically reduce build and test latencies across the organization.

AI and Innovation

• AI Tooling Consolidation: Audit and consolidate the existing landscape of AI tools. You will lead the selection and implementation of a unified AI suite to ensure consistent adoption and cost efficiency.

• Modernization: Lead the strategic planning for language specific upgrades, specifically TypeScript versioning and migration paths.

Governance and Security

• Library Management: Partner with AppSec to manage and approve library versions, ensuring our dependencies are secure without slowing down feature delivery.

• Standardization: Establish engineering standards and governance models that allow for autonomy while maintaining system wide consistency.

CI/CD and Workflow Orchestration

• Workflow Design: Design the YAML workflows, pipelines, and automated checks that developers interact with daily.

• Automated Deployments: Architect and implement self service automation for deployments, reducing manual intervention and ensuring a repeatable, push button experience for all engineering teams.

• Testing Strategy: Integrate automated testing and quality gates into the pipeline to ensure shift left testing is a reality.

• IDP Experience: You have experience building or maintaining IDPs that offer value add to Engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Experience: 8+ years in Software Engineering or Developer Productivity roles, with a proven track record of leading cross functional technical initiatives at a Staff level.

• Tooling Mastery: Deep experience with monorepos, Docker, and modern CI/CD platforms.

• Technical Influence: Ability to drive consensus across multiple product teams and mentor senior engineers on best practices.

• Empathy Driven: You view other developers as your customers and are passionate about removing friction from their workday.

• Automation Mindset: You prioritize automating repetitive tasks to improve efficiency across the entire organization.

Why Join This Team?

As a Staff Engineer in this newly formed team, you aren't just shipping features; you are shipping the factory. By saving 100 developers just 30 minutes a day through better tooling and pipelines, you reclaim 250 hours of engineering capacity every single week. You are the engineer who builds the tools that every other engineer loves to use.

Notice to Third Party Recruitment Agencies
Please note that Onebrief does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed Recruitment Services Agreement, there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without an agreement Onebrief explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, shall be deemed the property of Onebrief.