Developer Experience Engineer

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.