Developer Experience Engineer

Location: UK / India

Department: Product

JOB LOCATION: London or Chennai (Hybrid)

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About CloudBees

CloudBees helps organizations build, run, and govern software factories, giving enterprises the confidence to ship software better, faster, and safer.

Writing code is no longer the bottleneck. Governing what reaches production and validating its impact is. As enterprises adopt agentic coding, software is created faster than most teams can review, secure, and validate. Without consistent governance, organizations risk shipping code they cannot explain, audit, or trust.

CloudBees addresses this challenge without asking teams to replace the tools they already use. Across every toolchain a customer runs, CloudBees makes each change, human or AI, visible, auditable, and accountable before it reaches production. CloudBees Unify is the product behind this: a governance layer, with context and control-plane capabilities, that enforces consistent policy and evidence across every tool, team, and workflow.

Founded in 2010, CloudBees is backed by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bridgepoint Capital, HSBC, Golub Capital, Delta-v Capital, Matrix Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Visit us at www.cloudbees.com.

About the Team

The Seven League team takes its name from the fairy tale boots that let you cover seven leagues in a single stride. Our job: make every engineer at CloudBees faster by building tools so good they dont need to ask.

Were a catalyst, not a bottleneck. We build the boots and hand them out.

We work across the full software development lifecycle: pipeline automation, AI-assisted workflows, self-service platforms, and whatever else removes friction. We ship code, not advice.

What Youll Do

• Build reusable tooling that eliminates manual processes across the engineering org
• Work with engineering teams across the company to turn ask me and Ill do it into heres a tool you can use anytime
• Own projects end-to-end: from identifying the friction to shipping the solution
• Talk to the engineers youre building for, incorporate their feedback, iterate
• Participate in code reviews, push the bar, and mentor teammates

What Were Looking For

Must-have:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• You reach for code when you see a repetitive process, you love building tools your peers actually use
• Excited about AI-assisted development and whats happening right now. Not watching from the sidelines.
• Strong communication and influencing skills. We work without authority. Adoption is earned, not mandated. If engineers dont use what we build, thats on us.
• Java. Youve written production Java, not just read it
• Cloud (AWS or GCP or Azure) and Docker basics
• Collaborative by default. Strong opinions, loosely held. You give direct feedback with care and receive it the same way. The team gets better because youre on it.

Strong plus:

• Jenkins. Youve built on it as a developer, not just clicked through the UI. Deep knowledge (plugin development, Groovy DSL, internals) is a big bonus.
• Youve built software start-to-finish using AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor). Not just autocomplete. Actually shipping things with them.
• Kubernetes

Nice to have:

• Go
• Terraform
• Familiarity with other CI/CD ecosystems: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Tekton — the more youve touched, the better
• Open source tooling youve shipped that others use

Who This Is For 

Youre a developer who is obsessed with the tooling layer. Youve felt the pain of a slow pipeline, a flaky test environment, a deployment that takes five manual steps. Instead of accepting it, you fixed it. Permanently.

You believe the best way to help people is to give them better tools, and get out of their way. If that sounds obvious to you, well get along.