Senior Staff Developer modernizing DevEx, cloud platforms, and AI - assisted delivery at Benevity. Building secure engineering systems that help companies enable social action.
About the role
- Senior Staff Developer modernizing developer experience and AI-assisted delivery at Benevity, a social-impact technology company. Building secure cloud platforms, automation, and engineering standards.
Responsibilities
- Lead DevX and SDLC technical direction across domains, enabling AI-DLC and agentic automation
- Design and scale agentic systems that accelerate the full software development lifecycle
- Integrate AI into engineering practice while maintaining human judgment and security oversight
- Drive reusable and extendable developer-platform architecture using public cloud infrastructure
- Collaborate with Principal Architects on organizational DevX and AI-DLC strategy
- Translate business needs into adoptable platform solutions with stakeholders
- Address developer environments, CI/CD supply chains, authentication, and quality gates
- Diagnose friction and influence adoption across teams
- Turn tools and shared components into organizational standards
- Embed DevSecOps and cloud-native security into the delivery stack
- Create technical documentation, enablement guides, and implementation processes
- Promote industry-standard tools and shared platform capabilities
- Implement proof of concepts for platform, agentic, and product advancement
- Mentor senior developers through practical examples and constructive feedback
- Participate in architectural reviews for inclusive design, quality, and consistency
- Report to the Director of Engineering and collaborate with Principal Architects, Staff Developers, Security, and product teams
Requirements
- Proven hands-on experience in Developer Experience (DevX), including building internal developer platforms (IDPs), golden-path templates, automated quality gates, and shared engineering component libraries
- 8+ years of scalable software development experience with software design accountability
- 2+ years in a technical leadership role driving org-wide platform capabilities or engineering productivity
- Expertise in scaling Developer Experience, SDLC tooling, or modern engineering productivity systems
- Hands-on background with AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, and LLM tooling
- Deep commitment to secure, ethical delivery practices and fostering an inclusive engineering culture
- Strong grasp of core cloud infrastructure and scaling technical solutions across multiple teams
- Ability to diagnose team friction, influence workflows, and drive tool adoption
- Understanding of API-first design, loosely coupled systems, and modern software architecture
- Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code, DevSecOps practices, and modern CI/CD pipelines
- Experience coding in Python and/or Java, with familiarity with FastAPI or Spring Boot
- Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure on AWS or GCP; Azure experience is a bonus
- Excellent communication skills to align product, architecture, security, and engineering teams
- Comfort navigating ambiguous problems with a bias toward shipping measurable, user-friendly improvements
- Background integrating engineering systems such as Jira, CI, and observability into cohesive workflows
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid approach to where we work
- No set requirement for in-office time for people located near an office
- Opportunities for onboarding, project work, team alignment and connection in person
- Innovative work
- Growth opportunities
- Caring co-workers
- Purpose-driven work
- DEIB investment and employee resource groups
- Equal opportunities for everyone
- Accessible hiring process and accommodation support
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