Principal Software Engineer, Developer Experience Lead

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Drive Developer Productivity: Identify bottlenecks across the SDLC and architect solutions that simplify, accelerate, and standardize engineering workflows.
• Design & Build Internal Platforms: Partner with DevOps and infrastructure teams to develop tools, CI/CD pipelines, and reusable components that improve build/test/deploy speed, safety, and satisfaction.
• AI-Enabled Workflow Enablement: Shape the foundational tooling and policies that enable safe, compliant, and performant AI-assisted development across CyberArk.
• Lead Developer Advocacy: Act as a bridge between engineering teams and platform teams - gathering feedback, translating needs into action, and driving adoption of new tools and best practices.
• Elevate Onboarding & Documentation: Own the developer onboarding journey, creating golden paths, templates, internal wikis, and training that shorten time-to-first-pull-request.
• Build for Observability & Insights: Define and track developer experience metrics (e.g., DORA, onboarding time, tool adoption) to continuously improve our platforms and report impact to leadership.
• Foster Technical Culture: Organize tech talks, hackathons, internal working groups, and cross-team initiatives that promote innovation and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in engineering roles (e.g., software development, DevOps, developer productivity, platform engineering).
• Demonstrated success building or scaling internal developer platforms or tooling at the org-wide level.
• Strong knowledge of modern SDLC workflows, GitOps, CI/CD (e.g., Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions), and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Solid coding skills in one or more languages (e.g., Python, Go, JavaScript, Java).
• Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills - able to influence without authority and align diverse stakeholders.
• Deep empathy for developers, and a passion for crafting seamless, reliable internal tooling that lets engineers do their best work.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Able to work hybrid out of Salt Lake City, Utah or Santa Clara, CA.

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting AI/ML teams, or building workflows for AI-enhanced development environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits & Perks

• CyberArk offers a competitive compensation package, performance-based equity, and comprehensive benefits.
• Generous parental leave, flexible PTO, and support for remote work.
• Investment in growth through mentorship, learning stipends, and leadership opportunities from any level.
• Salary range for this position is $175,000 - $200,000/year, plus annual bonus based on performance and equity.