Senior Principal Platform Engineer (Developer Experience) en Clarity Innovations
Clarity Innovations · Herndon, Estados Unidos De América · Onsite
- Senior
- Oficina en Herndon
Clarity Innovations is a trusted national security partner, dedicated to safeguarding our nation’s interests and delivering innovative solutions that empower the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) to transform data into actionable intelligence, ensuring mission success in an evolving world.
Our mission-first software and data engineering platform modernizes data operations, utilizing advanced workflows, CI/CD, and secure DevSecOps practices. We focus on challenges in Information Warfare, Cyber Operations, Operational Security, and Data Structuring, enabling end-to-end solutions that drive operational impact.
We are committed to delivering cutting-edge tools and capabilities that address the most complex national security challenges, empowering our partners to stay ahead of emerging threats and ensuring the success of their critical missions. At Clarity, we are people-focused and set on being a destination employer for top talent, offering an environment where innovation thrives, careers grow, and individuals are valued. Join us as we continue to lead innovation and tackle the most pressing challenges in national security.
Position Overview
The Developer Experience Engineer position is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing solutions to enhance the end-to-end development lifecycle for offensive cyberspace operations and computer network operations developers. This role involves working alongside OCO and CNO developers to understand their needs and assisting as they onboard and orient to new environments, including helping re-establish development, tests, and pipelines. You will lead a team of engineers building and maintaining this environment, and are expected to take ownership of all aspects of promoting the developer experience within the environment.
As a Developer Experience Engineer, you will play a critical role in empowering cyber mission developers with state-of-the-art tools and infrastructure to drive mission success. This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of cutting-edge technology, cybersecurity, and national security, to shape the future of OCO and CNO development. While the offensive cyberspace operations context is learnable, the DevEx mindset is essential.
Key Responsibilities
Developer Experience & Productivity
- Maximize developer efficiency by identifying and removing blockers and pain points
- Collaborate with system development and cybersecurity teams to converge on one-click user-onboarding
- Implement mature feedback loops with OCO/CNO developers to continuously improve their experience and productivity
- Work with the Internal Development Platform teams to provide self-service capabilities, documentation, and training to help developers onboard quickly and effectively, specifically helping them migrate from existing on-premise development environments into a cloud-based environment
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
- Facilitate communication across development teams, DevOps engineers, and leadership to align on requirements, priorities, and translate pain points into actionable improvements
- Work with infrastructure/platform teams to ensure reliable, scalable, and cost-effective developer environments
- Collaborate with mission owners to support evolving OCO/CNO operational needs with tailored developer solutions
- Advocate developer needs to leadership
Qualifications
- Experience improving developer workflows, usability, or onboarding
- Experience in developer enablement roles such as Developer Experience, DevOps, or Developer Productivity Engineering
- Experience with developer-focused usability testing and/or gathering developer feedback
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools, version control (Git), build automation, and infrastructure-as-code
- Experience executing the software development lifecycle
- Strong facilitation skills to understand and communicate developer feedback, and ability to advocate for developer needs across technical and leadership teams
- Ability to work autonomously and take initiative in both design and engineering tasks
- 3-5 years of DevOps engineering experience
- Open/able to travel for in-person meetings
- Eligible to obtain a SECRET level clearance or higher
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline (degree requirement can be met with four years of hands-on experience as a software engineer or a similar full-time position)
Preferred Qualifications
- Active US TS/SCI security clearance with CI polygraph or higher
- Experience designing secure development environments in air-gapped or classified settings
- Experience working and/or solutioning in a NOC SOCs enterprise
- Experience working within OCO or CNO software development environments
- Experience tackling the challenge of migrating from on-premise environments to cloud environments
- Experience providing input on capability decisions through user research, customer development, and iterative feedback loops
- Experience working in a balanced team with other UX designers to build, measure, and learn
- Experience in the design and development of full-service applications
