Staff Engineer - DevX

Own the end-to-end developer experience for around 80 engineers, spanning CI, build tooling, codebase health, deployment paths, and the AI-assisted development loop

Lead our goal of doubling R&D output per engineer, which includes working out what "faster" genuinely means and finding measures that hold up rather than collapsing into a leaderboard for whoever ships the most mediocre code

Stay hands-on and ship the work yourself, landing real PRs across languages and services you may never have touched before, and making low-risk, high-leverage changes in unfamiliar code

Bring the whole engineering team with you by building the credibility and the relationships that get allow people to genuinely buy into your ideas, and clearing roadblocks for teams you don't own

Push the frontier on agentic coding tooling, evaluating it, rolling it out, measuring whether it's actually working, and continually raising the bar for what good looks like

A strong software engineering background with real production experience — you're an engineer first, and you're still writing the code

Experience inside a platform engineering organisation, or a track record as the person on an engineering team who led the charge on AI and developer tooling

Evidence that you've made engineering teams measurably faster, along with a clear point of view on what worked, what didn't, and why

Exposure to meaningful scale, so you've seen the problems that only appear once systems and teams get big

Real fluency with agentic coding tools, and a good instinct for when to trust them, correct them, or override them entirely

The influence skills to lead everyone and manage no one, which means strong relationships, fast buy-in, and the judgement to ask "is this a terrible idea?" of the right people before you ship

An absolute intolerance for going slowly, paired with a high tolerance for trying new things and taking sensible risks