Senior Engineer, DevEx

AssetMark is a leading wealth management platform dedicated to empowering independent financial advisors. Their mission is to enable advisors to make a profound difference in their clients’ lives with over 10,000 partners leveraging our investment offerings, technology, and services.

Key Responsibilities

• Champion developer experience by identifying and eliminating friction throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Design and implement self‑service developer platforms to provision infrastructure, deploy applications, manage environments, and access platform services independently.
• Build scalable, secure and opinionated paths for software delivery.
• Partner with engineering teams to understand productivity challenges and develop solutions that improve developer workflows.
• Improve onboarding experiences, development environments, documentation, templates, and automation that accelerate time‑to‑productivity for engineers.
• Establish and track engineering effectiveness metrics, including DORA, SPACE and other developer productivity measurements.
• Build and optimize CI/CD platforms using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps, driving adoption of true Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment practices.
• Establish standards and best practices for testing, deployment validation, release management, and software delivery governance.
• Design and maintain cloud‑native platform capabilities on Azure and Kubernetes, delivering reusable infrastructure patterns and self‑service capabilities with Terraform and IaC.
• Collaborate with SRE, security and platform teams to ensure scalability, reliability and compliance requirements are met.
• Lead complex technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams, influencing technical direction and platform strategy.
• Mentor engineers on platform engineering, cloud‑native development, CI/CD and DevEx principles.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5–8 years of experience in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Developer Experience, Site Reliability Engineering or related roles.
• Demonstrated experience building and operating CI/CD platforms at scale.
• Experience implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment practices in production environments.
• Proven track record of improving developer productivity through platform engineering and automation.
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or comparable CI/CD technologies.
• Experience building internal tooling, developer platforms or engineering productivity solutions.
• Experience working in highly regulated environments is preferred, particularly financial services or fintech.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building Internal Developer Platforms using Backstage or similar developer portals.
• Experience with GitOps practices and technologies such as ArgoCD.
• Experience with progressive delivery, feature flagging, canary deployments or blue‑green deployment strategies.
• Experience implementing engineering effectiveness programs using DORA, SPACE or similar frameworks.