Developer Experience Engineer

San Francisco (preferred) · Not specified

Annual base salary: Salary not listed
Equity: Not disclosed
Commitment: full_time
Company stage: Series A
Team size: 0–0 people

About the Role

We're looking for a Developer Experience Engineer to embed directly in the San Francisco developer ecosystem and help shape the future of Git workflows. This is a hybrid role across engineering, product, and community - part builder, part listener, part connector.

About the Job

Join us to help build the next generation of version control tools alongside a GitHub co-founder. You'll spend time with developers, teams, and partners - understanding how they actually work, where current tools break down, and where GitButler can win. You'll translate those insights into product direction, surface opportunities, and help coordinate high-leverage conversations between external partners and our team. You'll also get your hands dirty: prototyping workflows, testing ideas, contributing code when useful, and helping validate new concepts in the wild.

What You'll Do

- Engage deeply with developers, teams, and partners in SF - Identify pain points, workflows, and emerging patterns in modern development - Turn real-world insights into clear product direction and priorities - Build relationships and trust across the developer ecosystem - Help coordinate key conversations, partnerships, and introductions - Pull in the CEO or team at the right moments for maximum impact - Prototype, experiment, and validate ideas quickly (code when helpful)

About You

- Strong technical background (you can build, debug, and reason about real systems) - Deep familiarity with Git and modern developer workflows - Comfortable talking to developers and presenting in front of crowds. You love to do a demo. - Curious, observant, and opinionated about how software should be built - Able to translate messy qualitative input into clear insights - Excited by ambiguity, autonomy, and early-stage product shaping - Based in SF

Bonus Points

- Experience in forward deployed engineering or early-stage product roles - Strong network in the SF developer or startup ecosystem - Experience with developer tools, version control, or collaboration systems - History of building side projects, tools, or open source

Why GitButler?

We're building a fundamentally new way to work with Git - designed for modern, AI-assisted development workflows. Small team, fast pace, minimal meetings, and a real chance to shape how millions of developers write code.

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