Lead Product Engineer - Developer Productivity

Job Description

Congratulations, you have taken the first step towards bagging a career-defining role. Join the team of superheroes that safeguard data wherever it goes. What should you know about us? Seclore protects and controls digital assets to help enterprises prevent data theft and achieve compliance. Permissions and access to digital assets can be granularly assigned and revoked, or dynamically set at the enterprise-level, including when shared with external parties. Asset discovery and automated policy enforcement allow enterprises to adapt to changing security threats and regulatory requirements in real-time and at scale. Know more about us at www.seclore.com You would love our tribe: If you are a risk-taker, innovator, and fearless problem solver who loves solving challenges of data security, then this is the place for you! Role: Lead Product Engineer - Developer Productivity Experience: 6 - 8 Years Location: Mumbai/Pune A sneak peek into the role: We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Lead, Developer Productivity & Platform Engineering to spearhead our efforts in building, scaling, and continuously improving our internal developer platform. In this critical role, you will be responsible for empowering our development teams with the tools, infrastructure, and processes necessary to achieve exceptional productivity, accelerate software delivery, and enhance their overall experience. You will driving the vision, strategy, and execution of our IDP initiatives, with a strong focus on measuring and improving developer effectiveness. Here's what you will get to explore: Leadership: This role blends the responsibilities of an individual contributor with the need to lead a team as the practice grows. While the primary focus is on individual contributions and expertise, the role also requires guiding, mentoring, and coordinating the work of others. Foster a collaborative, innovative, and results-oriented team culture. Define clear roles, responsibilities, and performance expectations for team members. Platform Vision, Strategy & Roadmap: Define and articulate a clear vision, strategy, and roadmap for our internal developer platform (IDP), aligning with overall engineering and business objectives. Identify and prioritize key features and improvements for the IDP based on developer needs and productivity goals. Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies in platform engineering, developer experience, and IDPs (e.g., Backstage). Collaboration & Stakeholder Management: Work closely with application development teams, product managers, security teams, operations, and other stakeholders to understand their pain points, needs, and requirements for the IDP. Effectively communicate the value and progress of the IDP to both technical and non-technical audiences. IDP Design, Development & Maintenance: Lead the design, development, and maintenance of core components of our internal developer platform, emphasizing self-service capabilities, automation, standardization, and a seamless developer experience. Drive the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), and robust observability practices within the platform. Ensure the IDP is scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-effective. Focus on Developer Productivity & Measurement: Define and track key metrics to measure the impact of the IDP on developer productivity (e.g., deployment frequency, lead time for changes, time to recovery, developer satisfaction). Implement mechanisms for collecting and analyzing data related to developer workflows and platform usage. Identify and implement solutions to streamline developer workflows, reduce toil, and accelerate application delivery based on data and feedback. Potentially lead initiatives to integrate and leverage tools like Backstage to enhance developer experience and provide a centralized platform. Tooling & Integration: Evaluate and integrate relevant tools and technologies into the IDP ecosystem, including CI/CD systems, monitoring tools, logging solutions, security scanners, and potentially IDP frameworks like Backstage. Ensure seamless integration between different platform components and existing development tools. We can see the next Entrepreneur At Seclore if you: 6+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps roles, with increasing levels of responsibility. Proven experience leading and managing engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management. Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and common developer workflows. Deep technical expertise in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud-native technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, serverless). Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation). Significant experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Argo CD, or Flux CD. Solid understanding of observability principles and hands-on experience with monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog), logging solutions (e.g., ELK stack, Splunk), and distributed tracing (e.g., Jaeger, Zipkin). Strong understanding of security best practices for cloud environments and containerized applications, and experience with security scanning tools and secrets management. Experience in managing and configuring Code Quality tools like SonarQube Experience in managing and configuring Git tools like Gitlab Proficiency in at least one Programming language (e.g., Python, Go) for automation. Understanding of API design principles (REST, GraphQL) and experience with building and consuming APIs. Experience with data collection and analysis to identify trends and measure the impact of platform initiatives. Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and build consensus across teams. Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities. Experience working in an Agile development environment. Prior experience building and maintaining an Internal Developer Platform (IDP). Hands-on experience with IDP frameworks like Backstage, including setup, configuration, plugin development, and integration with other tools. Familiarity with developer productivity frameworks and methodologies. Experience with other programming languages commonly used by development teams (e.g., Java, Node.js, C++). Experience with service mesh technologies. Knowledge of cost management and optimization in the cloud. Experience in defining and tracking developer productivity metrics. Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Grafana, Tableau). Why do we call Seclorites Entrepreneurs not Employees? We value and support those who take the initiative and calculate risks. We have an attitude of a problem solver and an aptitude that is tech agnostic. You get to work with the smartest minds in the business. We are thriving not living. At Seclore, it is not just about work but about creating outstanding employee experiences. Our supportive and open culture enables our team to thrive. Excited to be the next Entrepreneur, apply today! Don't have some of the above points in your resume at the moment? Don't worry. We will help you build it. Let's build the future of data security at Seclore together.