Dev Experience Engineer

About Us
- Building Robotics, Inc.(BRI) is a Siemens-owned business on a mission to connect employees to the people, places, and things they need to do their best work. Our SaaS platform combines building intelligence, space analytics, and a consumer-grade mobile app technology to improve the workplace experience for Fortune 500 companies around the globe. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, our fast-growing team balances the dynamic energy of a small company with the backing of a global powerhouse.
- We're Transforming
- We are looking for a Dev Experience Engineer to help build the next generation of our smart building products. This is an opportunity to make difference by developing products that make offices, hospitals, factories and warehouse into energy efficient, interactive and efficient spaces in which to work. Come join our startup culture and participate firsthand in designing the future of workspaces.
- We’re building flexible, extensible web and mobile apps that allow users to interact with the buildings they work in. You will be developing intuitive, attractive, and usable interfaces in cooperation with UI designers, and working closely with product management and customers to understand how products could be more effective. We’re looking for curious systems thinkers who can identify opportunities for system improvements that can enhance the operation of the entire end-to-end system. This is the ideal role for someone who wants to be part of a cutting edge cloud development team while improving the lives of people in buildings all over the world. Join us in Transforming the Everyday
- About You
- Problem-solving versatility and resourcefulness. There will be many new and unexpected problems, and we need someone who can do the required research/networking to propose well thought-out solutions.
- Strong customer-service orientation. Developer Experience Engineers work closely with developers to determine needs and scope solutions. We answer questions about our tooling with kindness and compassion. We help others understand the work we do and how they can benefit from using it. Experience with usability studies or other tools to discover the tools Engineers want or need to improve their productivity is a good bonus.
- Outstanding communication skills, verbal, written, and visual. We believe in excellent documentation, give frequent internal presentations, and help guide the organization on DevOps/SRE best practices. Documentation is a particularly important skill for the Developer Experience role.
- Capable programmer. We write many of our own tools, and remain nimble by putting automation and software at the forefront of everything we do. We primarily use JavaScript and Python, but the specific language(s) you're comfortable with are less important than a desire to solve problems with code.
- Sharp and critical eye for details. The ability to think holistically and also maintain focus on small intricate details is essential for the high-impact work Developer Experience does.

Your Skills and Experience
- Develop a vision for Developer Experience the WPC team. This is a new area of emphasis, so it presents an exciting opportunity to scope what a highly functional Developer Experience program looks like.
- Manage the local development toolchain to improve Engineer productivity from feature conception to the end of the Continuous Delivery process.
- Optimize the onboarding process for new Engineers to be quick and painless.
- Work closely with our Security and DevOps teams to ensure our practices comply with their needs.
- Identify opportunities for reducing developer friction and execute on them.
- Work across Engineering teams to enhance, document, and establish processes and generally improve development practices.
- Bonus Points For
- An understanding of monorepo tooling and approaches. We use a monorepo, so prior experience with the unique tools and challenges that arise from that would be helpful.
- Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and IaC. We automate our infrastructure with Terraform and deploy AWS managed and/or serverless cloud.
- Technologies We Use:, LaunchDarkly, Pendo
- Our Benefits Include
- Competitive salaries
- Frequent team events (costumes optional)
- Independent start-up culture with the backing of a global corporate powerhouse, Siemens
- Our Promise to You
- We believe your work is an extension of yourself. At Siemens Building Robotics Inc., we hire many sorts of selves and that’s what makes us exceptional. We value diversity of thought, always asking tough questions, committing to solutions—and we do that best when we have and nurture every point of view. We value you, and we want to hear you, learn from you, and move forward together.

**Organization**: Smart Infrastructure

**Company**: Siemens S.A.S.

**Experience Level**: Mid-level Professional

**Full / Part time**: Full-time