Senior Software Engineer, DevEx

In this role you will own and evolve Flexport’s developer platform, enabling hundreds of engineers to ship faster and more securely. You will build self-serve tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and build systems to streamline engineering workflows. You’ll steward GraphQL and gRPC ecosystems, IAM by default security, and the observability stack to keep services reliable. This is a high-impact, hands-on position that shapes how Flexport engineering builds for years to come. Join a mission-driven team that accelerates global trade through great developer experience.

• daily catered lunches
• commute expenses
• 25 vacation days
• health insurance
• pension
• equity program

• Own and evolve the developer platform to empower engineers
• Create and support CI/CD pipelines (Buildkit, Github Actions) and build tooling (Gradle, Bazel, npm/pnpm/bun, Go and Cargo) and artifact repositories (Artifactory, ECR, github)
• Improve backend and frontend developer experience
• Steward GraphQL and gRPC ecosystem including middleware, federation, schema sharing, CLIs, codegen, servers and clients
• Evolve IAM solutions to be secure-by-default
• Ensure smooth container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS) and observability stack (Openmetrics, Datadog) for running and debugging services

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience building developer platforms or internal tooling
• Strong full-stack instincts across backend, frontend pipelines, Kubernetes manifests, and CI configurations
• Experience with multiple of: CI/CD systems, container orchestrators, multi-language build tooling, GraphQL-based BFF, gRPC, metrics and artifact storage
• Ability to fix tech debt or manage migrations
• Independent mindset and ability to operate in ambiguity
• Excellent communication skills and ability to document and align stakeholders
• Helpful attitude and drive for team-wide productivity

• communication
• independence and initiative
• impact orientation
• GitHub Actions
• Kubernetes
• Gradle