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Developer Experience (DX) Enablement Manager

CloudLinux is a global remote-first company. We are driven by our principles: do the right thing, employees first, we are remote first, and we deliver high volume, low-cost Linux infrastructure and security products that help companies to increase the efficiency of their operations. Every person on our team supports each other and does what we can to ensure we all are successful.

We're looking for a highly motivated and results-oriented Developer Experience (DX) Enablement Manager to join our team. In this role, you'll be the driving force behind strategic initiatives aimed at optimizing our development lifecycle. This is a unique opportunity to build and implement programs that directly impact how our engineers work, from onboarding and tooling to a company-wide culture of best practices. You'll work at the intersection of technology and human-centered design, ensuring our engineers have everything they need to be productive and innovative.

Primary Strategic Objectives:

• Elevate the Development Workflow: Focus on the "first mile" of development to proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks.
• Champion Standardization: Enhance and formalize best practices through standardized guides and processes.
• Drive LLM Integration: Strategically leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance productivity throughout the entire development cycle.

What You'll Work On:

• AI Tooling & Integration:
• Lead the integration of AI-powered tools like Cursor into each department's software development lifecycle.
• Develop and implement a standardized questionnaire for our hiring process to assess candidates' skills and willingness to use LLMs.
• Explore and implement automation opportunities using LLMs to streamline operational activities for engineering managers and leaders, such as drafting top-level reports and AI-based triage for platforms like Sentry.
• Enhance our onboarding process by utilizing Cursor and LLMs to create more effective learning paths.
• Workflow Standardization & Best Practices:
• Utilize a Developer Experience Techniques to uncover and resolve key bottlenecks in pre-commit developer workflows.
• Develop and formalize a set of guides, or "blue books," to standardize our best practices across the engineering organization.
• Empower our monthly technology Communities of Practice (Python, AQA, DevOps) to make recommendations for company-wide tools and technology stacks.
• Research and propose a strategy to consolidate the various code review tools and bots used by different departments into a single, maintainable product.
• Education & Evangelism:
• Promote prompt engineering and context engineering practices to help developers get more meaningful results from LLMs.
• Maintain a library of AI research papers and monitor industry trends to keep our teams at the forefront of technology.
• Measure the impact of our AI initiatives by researching and experimenting with methods to quantify an engineer's productivity.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

• Impact: Your work will directly enhance the productivity and satisfaction of every engineer in the company.
• Innovation: You'll be at the forefront of integrating cutting-edge AI technology into a real-world development environment.
• Ownership: You'll have the autonomy to define and execute a strategy that shapes the future of our engineering culture.
• Community: You'll be the central point for building and empowering our internal technical communities.