Principal Software Engineer, Developer Experience Lead

About CyberArk:
CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), is the global leader in Identity Security. Centered on privileged access management, CyberArk provides the most comprehensive security offering for any identity – human or machine – across business applications, distributed workforces, hybrid cloud workloads and throughout the DevOps lifecycle. The world’s leading organizations trust CyberArk to help secure their most critical assets. To learn more about CyberArk, visit our CyberArk blogs or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook.

As Developer Experience Leader, you will play a pivotal role in transforming the daily experience of developers within CyberArk. This highly visible, technically influential position sits at the intersection of engineering, DevOps, security, and product. As an individual contributor, you’ll design and champion modern platforms, workflows, and tools that boost productivity, reduce friction, and drive a culture of engineering excellence.

This isn’t just about maintaining systems — it’s about crafting the internal ecosystem that fuels the next decade of Machine Identity Security product innovation at CyberArk, including secure-by-default workflows, AI-integrated development environments, and seamless cloud-native delivery.

What You’ll Do

• Drive Developer Productivity: Identify bottlenecks across the SDLC and architect solutions that simplify, accelerate, and standardize engineering workflows..
• Design & Build Internal Platforms: Partner with DevOps and infrastructure teams to develop tools, CI/CD pipelines, and reusable components that improve build/test/deploy speed, safety, and satisfaction.
• AI-Enabled Workflow Enablement: Shape the foundational tooling and policies that enable safe, compliant, and performant AI-assisted development across CyberArk.
• Lead Developer Advocacy: Act as a bridge between engineering teams and platform teams — gathering feedback, translating needs into action, and driving adoption of new tools and best practices.
• Elevate Onboarding & Documentation: Own the developer onboarding journey, creating golden paths, templates, internal wikis, and training that shorten time-to-first-pull-request.
• Build for Observability & Insights: Define and track developer experience metrics (e.g., DORA, onboarding time, tool adoption) to continuously improve our platforms and report impact to leadership.
• Foster Technical Culture: Organize tech talks, hackathons, internal working groups, and cross-team initiatives that promote innovation and knowledge sharing.

Why This Role?

• High Impact: This is a force-multiplier role — your work directly improves the productivity of engineers working on mission-critical software.
• Strategic Visibility: You’ll work closely with leadership, engineering directors, and cross-functional product teams to align priorities and demonstrate value.
• Own the Future: Help define how CyberArk builds software for the next decade — including the adoption of secure, AI-ready engineering practices.
• Modern Stack & Real Autonomy: Work with the tools you love (Kubernetes, GitOps, cloud-native platforms) in a flexible, high-trust culture that values technical leadership.
• Culture of Security + Innovation: At CyberArk, security is built-in — but never slows us down. You’ll have the rare opportunity to innovate within one of the world’s most trusted security brands.

#LI-HA1

• 10+ years of experience in engineering roles (e.g., software development, DevOps, developer productivity, platform engineering).
• Demonstrated success building or scaling internal developer platforms or tooling at the org-wide level.
• Strong knowledge of modern SDLC workflows, GitOps, CI/CD (e.g., Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions), and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Solid coding skills in one or more languages (e.g., Python, Go, JavaScript, Java).
• Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills — able to influence without authority and align diverse stakeholders.
• Deep empathy for developers, and a passion for crafting seamless, reliable internal tooling that lets engineers do their best work.
• Bonus: Experience supporting AI/ML teams, or building workflows for AI-enhanced development environments.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience..  
• Able to work hybrid out of our Salt Lake City, Utah or Santa Clara, CA

          Join CyberArk and redefine how secure software is built — from the inside out

CyberArk is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status. 

We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visa at this time.

CyberArk is a people-first company. We offer a competitive compensation package, performance-based equity, and comprehensive benefits — including generous parental leave, flexible PTO, and support for remote work. We invest in your growth through mentorship, learning stipends, and opportunities to lead from any level. The salary range for this position is $175,000 – $200,000/year, plus annual bonus, which will be based on the employee’s performance and equity. Base pay may also vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.