Staff DevEx Engineer

AssetMark is a leading wealth management platform dedicated to empowering independent financial advisors. Over 10,000 advisors partner with AssetMark, using our investment offerings, innovative technology, and advanced services to delight their clients and grow their businesses. Job Overview AssetMark seeks a Staff Engineer to lead our Developer Experience team. This senior technical leader will own significant platform capabilities, drive architectural decisions, and establish technical standards that enable our entire engineering organization. You will work on transformational initiatives such as automation, deployment frameworks, and developer workflows to accelerate software delivery across the organization, mentor other engineers, and ensure our technology foundation scales with growth. Key Responsibilities Drive the technical roadmap for Developer Experience and Cloud Platform Engineering initiatives. Establish standards, patterns, and best practices for CI/CD, infrastructure automation, deployment pipelines, and developer tooling. Lead architecture decisions for cloud‑native deployment platforms and internal developer platforms. Shape platform strategy through written specifications and hands‑on code implementation. Drive modernization efforts across GitHub workflows, deployment automation, and infrastructure‑as‑code practices. Serve as a technical escalation point for complex platform reliability, scalability, and operational issues. Mentor engineers and elevate overall engineering maturity of the organization. Design and implement scalable developer workflows that improve engineering velocity and reliability. Lead initiatives around episodic test environments, self‑service development infrastructure, and onboarding experiences. Partner with engineering teams to identify workflow bottlenecks and automate repetitive operational tasks. Promote platform adoption through documentation, enablement, technical guidance, and code implementation. Evaluate, use, and integrate AI‑assisted development tooling and workflow automation opportunities. Collaborate closely with application, platform, architecture, product, infrastructure, security, and operations teams. Translate business and organizational goals into scalable technical platform capabilities. Support incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement for platform services. Key Qualifications and Experience 15+ years of software/platform engineering experience with increasing technical leadership responsibilities. Deep experience designing and operating cloud‑native platforms and developer infrastructure. Strong expertise with Azure DevOps / GitHub CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and IaC using Terraform / Ansible. Experience deploying apps/microservices on Kubernetes/Docker and modern cloud infrastructure platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP). Strong understanding of software engineering lifecycle, release engineering, and DevOps principles. Experience building scalable internal platforms, local development, and self‑service engineering capabilities. Strong understanding of distributed systems, observability, reliability engineering, and operational excellence. Experience supporting multi‑language engineering ecosystems (Java, .NET, Python, JavaScript, etc.). Familiarity with GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps pipelines, and modern source control workflows. Experience implementing security best practices within platform engineering environments. Strong communication and technical leadership skills; ability to influence across teams. Experience evaluating and integrating AI‑enabled engineering productivity tooling is a plus. Financial services or regulated industry experience is preferred. Compensation Base Salary range: $175,000 – $219,000. This position is also eligible for additional variable incentive compensation and competitive benefits. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the US and this role does not sponsor visas. EEO Statement AssetMark is an equal opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive workforce where everyone feels valued. AssetMark welcomes applications from all backgrounds, including those who are traditionally underrepresented in technology. #J-18808-Ljbffr