Principal Developer Experience & Platform Engineer

We are seeking a Principal Developer Experience & Platform Engineer to serve as a builder, systems thinker, and organizational technical leader. Application demands are rapidly evolving, and the line between human and AI-driven development is shifting. In this role, you will define the long-term technical vision for Developer Experience and platform engineering across Conductor-ensuring our systems are legible, reliable, and effortless to build on for both human engineers and autonomous software agents.

You will bridge deep distributed systems architecture with developer product thinking. Operating across team boundaries, you will solve high-leverage software and build-system bottlenecks, evolve our hybrid cloud and bare-metal platforms, and craft the golden paths, CLIs, APIs, and abstractions that allow our engineering teams to move from idea to production with maximum velocity and confidence., * Architect Paved Roads & Developer Abstractions: Design, build, and maintain modern internal developer platforms, SDKs, CLIs, service templates, and APIs that make doing the right thing the easiest thing by default.

• Optimize Build Systems & CI/CD at Scale: Drive complex initiatives to reduce build and test times, optimize CI throughput across large codebases/monorepos, eliminate flaky tests, and ensure deployment orchestration is fast, safe, and easily reversible.
• Integrate Agentic & AI-Native Tooling: Design agent-safe developer interfaces and paved paths that allow LLM-driven workflows, AI coding agents, and human-in-the-loop automation to operate seamlessly within our build, test, and release cycles.
• Elevate System Reliability & Observability: Evolve our high-scale hybrid cloud, bare-metal infrastructure, terabyte-scale Elasticsearch clusters, and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes). Drive SLOs, monitoring, and resilience patterns while maintaining enterprise-grade security.
• Technical Writing & Legibility: Own the internal documentation architecture and engineering standards. Ensure our platform, abstractions, and developer narratives remain clear, structured, and easy to navigate from an engineer’s first day to expert-level architecture.
• Uplevel & Mentor Engineering Leadership: Lead by example through clear code reviews, architectural guidance, and first-principles problem-solving. Mentor senior engineers and foster a collaborative, high-energy engineering culture., Compensation: Conductor maintains competitive, performance-based compensation programs. The Berlin base salary range for this role is currently 130,000 - 160,000 euro.

• 15+ Years of Systems & Platform Engineering Experience: Proven track record of architecting, shipping, and owning large-scale distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure, and developer-facing platforms in fast-moving environments.
• Deep DevEx & Tooling Passion: Experience building internal platforms, CLIs, SDKs, build engines, or test frameworks with a relentless focus on API ergonomics, usability, and developer adoption.
• Strong Coding & Systems Fundamentals: Hands-on proficiency in modern software engineering languages (such as Go, TypeScript, or Python) with deep expertise in cloud-native ecosystems (Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, Terraform).
• High Technical Legibility & Clear Writing: Exceptional ability to take complex systems and communicate them clearly through documentation, RFCs, technical narratives, and architectural diagrams.
• Agentic AI Vision: A forward-thinking perspective on how LLMs and software agents are reshaping developer workflows, and how to build reliable, well-governed platform interfaces to support them.
• Pragmatic Artisan Mindset: High bar for software quality and operational excellence, balanced with a startup-minded bias for action-knowing what to polish, what to simplify, and what to defer.
• Proven Technical Leadership: Experience influencing organizational strategy, aligning cross-functional teams, driving consensus across complex initiatives, and mentoring senior technical talent.

Conductor is the leading enterprise AEO platform. Today’s top enterprise brands use Conductor to grow authority and visibility in both AI and traditional search engines. From tracking visibility in LLMs to real-time monitoring of technical site health and scaled AI content creation, Conductor provides a single source of truth that fuels digital growth-all from one platform.

Conductor is a mission-driven company with a commitment to innovation, customer success, and culture. For Conductor, success is improving the lives of everyone in our orbit-our customers, our customers’ customers, our employee-owners, and our communities.