Staff Developer Experience Engineer, Onebrief
$200-230k
+ Equity
Operating system for military command
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Operating system for military command
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-230k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable faster, smarter decisions, by syncing data across all products in real-time.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 8+ years in Software Engineering or Developer Productivity roles, with a proven track record of leading cross functional technical initiatives at a Staff level
- Tooling Mastery: Deep experience with monorepos, Docker, and modern CI/CD platforms
- Technical Influence: Ability to drive consensus across multiple product teams and mentor senior engineers on best practices
- Empathy Driven: You view other developers as your customers and are passionate about removing friction from their workday
- Automation Mindset: You prioritize automating repetitive tasks to improve efficiency across the entire organization
What the job involves
- We are building a brand new Developer Experience (DevEx) Team as a core strategic investment in our engineering organization's growth and efficiency
- As a Staff Engineer, you will be a technical leader with a massive multiplier effect, setting the vision for how hundreds of engineers interact with our codebase
- You will be the primary architect of the Golden Path, ensuring that from the moment a developer opens their IDE to the moment their code hits production, the process is seamless, fast, and intuitive
- You will own the local development environment, lead our AI consolidation strategy, and define the standards for how we build software at scale
- Standardize the IDE: Create and maintain the Golden Path for developers, including recommended plugins, configurations, and internal tooling to reduce cognitive load
- Local Experience: Own the bootstrapping process for new services. Optimize local Docker workflows and resource allocation to ensure dev environments are fast and reliable
- Dev Tooling: Lead the architectural transition of our build systems (migrating to Turborepo) to drastically reduce build and test latencies across the organization
- AI Tooling Consolidation: Audit and consolidate the existing landscape of AI tools. You will lead the selection and implementation of a unified AI suite to ensure consistent adoption and cost efficiency
- Modernization: Lead the strategic planning for language specific upgrades, specifically TypeScript versioning and migration paths
- Library Management: Partner with AppSec to manage and approve library versions, ensuring our dependencies are secure without slowing down feature delivery
- Standardization: Establish engineering standards and governance models that allow for autonomy while maintaining system wide consistency
- Workflow Design: Design the YAML workflows, pipelines, and automated checks that developers interact with daily
- Automated Deployments: Architect and implement self service automation for deployments, reducing manual intervention and ensuring a repeatable, push button experience for all engineering teams
- Testing Strategy: Integrate automated testing and quality gates into the pipeline to ensure shift left testing is a reality
- IDP Experience: You have experience building or maintaining IDPs that offer value add to Engineering teams
Our take
Onebrief is transforming military planning with its software platform, which simplifies and speeds up operational tasks for US military headquarters worldwide. The platform enhances decision-making and streamlines complex planning, supporting various missions from defense to humanitarian aid.
The company has continuously updated its offering, for example by launching an API for better integration with other military tools, and developing offline access for remote use. It has also added AI features as part of continued innovation to meet the evolving needs of military users.
Onebrief has secured substantial funding which has allowed it to grow significantly. The latest round, secured in early 2026, will support rapid scaling and comes alongside the company's acquisition of Battle Road Digital, a leading defense innovation company applying gaming technology to defense and national security challenges.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2026
$200m
SERIES D
Jun 2025
$20m
SERIES C
Total funding: $344.2m
Company HQ
Aliamanu - Salt Lakes - Foster Village, Honolulu, HI
Leadership
Grant Demaree
(Co-Founder & CEO)Mentor at Alchemist Accelerator. Their career spans leadership in the 101st Airborne Division and strategic roles in international operations.
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