Software Engineer II, Developer Experience Engineer

Summary

Join Dandy's Platform team and help build a world-class engineering organization dedicated to boosting developer productivity and happiness. As a skilled engineer, you will evolve CI/CD platforms, build internal tooling and development environments, integrate cutting-edge tools, and lead projects to improve engineering team productivity. You will collaborate with product engineering teams, champion best practices, and contribute to the team's roadmap. This role requires a passion for elegant solutions, workflow optimization, and making other engineers' lives easier. Dandy offers a wide range of benefits, including healthcare, dental, mental health support, parental planning resources, retirement savings options, and generous paid time off.

Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, with a demonstrated focus on developer experience, infrastructure, or CI/CD
• Strong proficiency with CI/CD systems (e.g., BuildKite, GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
• Hands-on experience with a major cloud provider (GCP, AWS, Azure) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Bash)
• A collaborative, customer-obsessed mindset with a passion for helping other engineers succeed
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Evolve our CI/CD platforms to provide faster, more reliable feedback loops to engineers
• Build and own the internal tooling, build systems, and local development environments that form the foundation of our engineering workflow
• Identify and integrate cutting-edge tools and practices, including AI-powered assistants, to amplify developer creativity and productivity
• Autonomously lead well-defined, multi-month projects that deliver clear improvements to the engineering team's productivity and technical quality
• Collaborate closely with product engineering teams to understand their pain points, gather requirements, and deliver solutions they love to use
• Champion and implement best practices for development, testing, and deployment
• Contribute to the team's roadmap and strategy by identifying opportunities for high-impact improvements

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building internal developer platforms or portals
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)
• Familiarity with observability platforms (e.g., Chronosphere, Prometheus, Grafana)

Benefits

• Healthcare
• Dental
• Mental health support
• Parental planning resources
• Retirement savings options
• Generous paid time off