Staff Software Engineer | Developer Experience

WGU Product Design

Salt Lake City, UTFULL_TIMEPosted Jul 28, 2026

Role responsibilities

Lead the architecture and development of internal developer platforms, tooling, and backend services to improve engineering velocity. Define the technical strategy for developer experience, including CI/CD automation and scalable API design.

Requirements

Requires over 10 years of professional software engineering experience with deep expertise in Java or Python and cloud platforms. Proven track record in building internal platforms, distributed systems, and managing production Kubernetes environments is essential.

Key skills

Java, Python, CI/CD, Distributed Systems, Microservices, API Design, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Angular, TypeScript, NoSQL, Terraform, Platform Engineering

Keywords

Developer Experience, DevEx, Backend Development, Cloud-Native, Infrastructure As Code, Observability, SRE, Event-Driven Architecture, Message Queues, API Gateways, GraphQL, Service Mesh, Monorepos, Release Engineering, PaaS, Software Delivery Pipelines, System Diagnostics, Technical Governance, Higher Education