Senior Developer Experience Engineer

Compensation: $170,000-220,000/year 

Team & Position Details: 

We're seeking a Senior Developer Experience Engineer to join Virtru at a pivotal moment in our growth. You will be reporting to the Staff Architect 2. This is a unique opportunity to be the founding member of our dedicated Developer Experience practice, shaping how thousands of developers will interact with our Data Security Platform and OpenTDF SDKs. You'll be building something entirely new—a world-class developer experience that differentiates us in the market and accelerates platform adoption.

As our Senior Developer Experience Engineer, you'll focus on making our SDKs exceptional while contributing to the broader developer journey. This is a hands-on technical role where you'll be deep in the code while helping establish the strategic direction for how we serve our developer community. Your work will directly impact our competitive positioning and growth trajectory.

As a Senior Developer Experience Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

• SDK Excellence: Drive the development and improvement of our multi-language SDK portfolio (Go, Java, JavaScript), ensuring idiomatic, consistent interfaces that follow each language's best practices
• Developer Onboarding: Own the critical "time-to-first-value" experience, making it effortless for developers to protect and unprotect their first piece of data
• Technical Documentation: Create comprehensive, "cookbook-style" guides and tutorials that enable developers to succeed quickly with clear, working examples
• Community Engagement: Serve as a technical contact for our open-source community, managing feedback and contributions to build a thriving ecosystem
• Success Measurement: Define and track key developer experience metrics including time-to-first-value, SDK adoption rates, and developer satisfaction scores
• Developer Advocacy: Gather and synthesize developer feedback to influence product roadmap and engineering priorities across the organization
• Foundation Building: Help establish processes, standards, and culture that will scale as we grow our DX practice

Skills that will help you thrive in this role: 

• 5-7 years of software engineering experience with a focus on developer-facing tools, SDKs, or APIs
• SDK or Developer Tools Experience: Hands-on experience building and maintaining SDKs, developer tools, or APIs in production environments
• Multi-language Proficiency: Strong programming skills in Go, Java, and/or JavaScript with the ability to write idiomatic code in each language
• API Design Expertise: Familiarity with API design principles, developer workflow tools, and best practices for developer-facing interfaces
• Developer Experience or Developer Relations background with a track record of improving developer adoption and satisfaction
• Community engagement experience working with open-source projects, managing developer feedback, or building developer communities
• Technical writing excellence with the ability to create clear, compelling documentation, blogs, and tutorials
• Strategic thinking combined with hands-on execution—you're equally comfortable contributing to long-term vision and planning or writing code
• Exceptional communication skills for collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the organization
• Self-starter mentality with the ability to build something from scratch with minimal guidance

Virtruvian qualities that will set you up for success:

• Thinking outside of the box to respectfully challenge your teammates and managers in the pursuit of excellence
• Strong sense of urgency with an action-oriented mindset
• Able to collaborate and adapt to shifting priorities as business needs evolve
• Comfortable with asynchronous communication including slack, email, zoom, etc.

Perks & Benefits:

At Virtru, we believe people do their best work when their wellbeing is put first. This is why we make your wellbeing our priority with a thoughtful and holistic program that encompasses Occupational, Mental, Social, Physical, and Environmental Wellness by offering benefits such as…

• A Flexible PTO policy — we strongly encourage you to take time off (in addition to 14 holidays) to ensure that you are getting the proper time needed to unplug and recharge. 
• A $1,500 annual Learning & Development Stipend focused on providing you the resources to continually learn and professionally grow.
• Frequent company-sponsored team celebrations that provide ample opportunities to connect with teammates and be social!
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program
• Access to Headspace, a mental health app tailored to your specific needs.
• A flat 3% contribution to your retirement account
• A high degree of flexibility — Have an appointment, errand, or family emergency to take care of? Hop to it! We give you the time and space to take care of you and your own first.

In addition to wellbeing, Virtru places a strong emphasis on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Our DE&I Council is dedicated to fostering an inclusive workplace and making the psychological safety of each and every one of our teammates a top priority. 

Additional perks include: 

• Competitive compensation
• Generous parental, medical, and bereavement policies
• 401K contribution and stock options
• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
• New Hire Swag and IT Welcome boxes
• Structured semi-annual 360° performance reviews

Virtru is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and everyone is encouraged to apply. Virtru is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law.