Staff DevEx Engineer

AssetMark•Charlotte, NC

1d•$175,000 - $219,000•Hybrid

About The Position

AssetMark is seeking a Staff Engineer to help lead our Developer Experience team. This role will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for and owning significant platform capabilities, driving architectural decisions, and establishing technical standards that enable our entire engineering organization. You'll work on transformational initiatives including automation, deployment frameworks, and developer workflows that accelerate software delivery across the organization, while mentoring other engineers and ensuring our technology foundation scales with business growth. We can only consider candidates for this position who are able to accommodate a hybrid work schedule and are close to our Charlotte, NC office.

Requirements

Deep experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms and developer infrastructure
Strong expertise with Azure DevOps / GitHub CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform / Ansible
Experience with deploying apps/microservices on Kubernetes/Docker, container orchestration, and modern cloud infrastructure platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
Strong understanding of software engineering lifecycle, release engineering, and DevOps principles
Experience building scalable internal platforms, local development, and self-service engineering capabilities
Strong understanding of distributed systems, observability, reliability engineering, and operational excellence
Experience supporting multi-language engineering ecosystems (Java, .NET, Python, JavaScript, etc.)
Familiarity with GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps pipelines and modern source control workflows
Experience implementing security best practices within platform engineering environments
Strong communication and technical leadership skills with the ability to influence across teams
Experience evaluating and integrating AI-enabled engineering productivity tooling is a plus
Financial services or regulated industry experience preferred
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
15+ years of software/platform engineering experience with increasing technical leadership responsibilities
Proven experience leading complex platform engineering or developer productivity initiatives
Experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure at enterprise scale
Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across multiple teams
Strong hands-on engineering background with ability to contribute directly to implementation work
Experience working within Agile/Scrum environments and cross-functional engineering organizations
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the US to be considered.
We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

Nice To Haves

Experience evaluating and integrating AI-enabled engineering productivity tooling is a plus
Financial services or regulated industry experience preferred

Responsibilities

Define and drive the technical roadmap for Developer Experience and Cloud Platform Engineering initiatives
Establish standards, patterns, and best practices for CI/CD, infrastructure automation, deployment pipelines, and developer tooling
Lead architecture decisions for cloud-native deployment platforms and internal developer platforms
Shape platform strategy through both written specifications and hands-on code implementation
Drive modernization efforts across GitHub workflows, deployment automation, and infrastructure-as-code practices
Serve as a technical escalation point for complex platform reliability, scalability, and operational issues
Mentor engineers and help raise the overall engineering maturity of the organization
Design and implement scalable developer workflows that improve engineering velocity and reliability
Lead initiatives around ephemeral test environments and self-service development infrastructure
Improve onboarding, local development, testing, deployment, and observability experiences for engineering teams
Partner with engineering teams to identify workflow bottlenecks and automate repetitive operational tasks
Drive adoption of platform capabilities through documentation, enablement, technical guidance, and hands-on code implementation
Evaluate, use and integrate AI-assisted development tooling and workflow automation opportunities
Partner closely and collaborate with application & platform engineering, architecture, product, infrastructure, security, and operations teams
Translate business and organizational goals into scalable technical platform capabilities
Influence engineering direction through technical leadership and strong communication
Participate in strategic planning and investment prioritization for engineering initiatives
Support incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement efforts for platform services