Director of Developer Experience

Details

SentinelOne is seeking a Director of Developer Experience to lead the organization responsible for how engineers build, test, ship, and operate software. The role owns two interconnected functions: Infrastructure Services, including CI/CD orchestration, GitOps continuous delivery, and artifact management, and Developer Tooling, including CI/CD pipelines and internal developer platforms.

The Director will define and execute the strategy for integrating AI across the software development lifecycle, including AI-assisted code generation and review, AI-driven engineering intelligence, automated test generation, intelligent test selection, and AI-assisted incident response. The role has executive visibility and responsibility for improving engineering productivity, software delivery speed, production confidence, and the safe adoption of AI across the SDLC.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and develop a multi-team organization of managers and senior engineers across Infrastructure Services and Developer Tooling.
• Define and execute the developer experience vision covering build, test, deployment, artifact management, internal platform capabilities, and AI-augmented developer workflows.
• Own the strategy and rollout of AI tooling across the SDLC, including AI coding assistants, AI code review and pull request automation, AI-assisted test generation, and AI engineering intelligence platforms.
• Drive AI tooling adoption, measure its impact, and ensure tools are deployed safely and effectively.
• Ensure the availability, performance, and security of systems used by engineers.
• Evolve CI/CD pipelines to be faster, more reliable, self-service, and secure.
• Establish metrics and use them to drive measurable improvements in developer productivity.
• Partner with security, legal, and AI leadership to establish policies for AI-generated code, intellectual property and licensing, data handling, model selection, and acceptable-use guardrails.
• Partner with security, SRE, product engineering, architecture, and AI/ML teams on standards, golden paths, and shared platforms.
• Own the budget, tooling investments, and vendor relationships for the developer experience portfolio, including AI tooling expenditure.
• Recruit, mentor, and retain engineering leaders and individual contributors.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive engineering experience.
• 5+ years of engineering management experience.
• At least 2 years of experience leading managers.
• Demonstrated experience building and scaling developer experience, platform engineering, or DevOps organizations in a mid-to-large engineering organization.
• Deep, hands-on familiarity with modern CI/CD and developer tooling, including Jenkins, ArgoCD, Artifactory, or equivalent technologies.
• Practical experience evaluating, deploying, and measuring the impact of AI developer tooling.
• A clear perspective on how AI changes the SDLC while maintaining security, code quality, and developer trust.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes, GitOps, containerization, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
• Experience defining and operating internal developer platforms and golden paths.
• Strong strategic thinking combined with the ability to engage deeply in technical decisions.
• Excellent communication and executive presence, with the ability to influence engineering and partner with security, compliance, legal, and product leadership.
• A demonstrated focus on developer empathy, self-service, and reducing toil.

Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Flexible time off, paid company holidays, and paid sick time
• Gender-neutral parental leave and grandparent leave
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Life and disability insurance
• Health and dependent care FSA
• Voluntary hospital, accident, and critical illness benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• ARAG prepaid legal services
• Nationwide pet insurance
• Cancer Care program
• Global business travel medical insurance
• Home office allowance
• Mobile phone reimbursement
• Wellness coach and wellness/gym reimbursement
• Fertility coverage
• Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement

Compensation

The U.S. base salary range is $206,250–$275,000 USD. The range may vary based on the candidate's location, and a different range may apply in some locations.