DevEx Team Leader

As a DevOps Experience Manager at Fiverr, you will lead our DevEx team with a specific focus on optimizing the end-to-end journey of our software engineers. Your mission is to build and maintain a scalable, secure, and intuitive internal developer platform that minimizes friction and maximizes productivity. You will drive the adoption of modern DevEx practices, ensuring a seamless alignment between engineering workflows, developer satisfaction, and operational excellence.

This leadership role requires a balance of hands-on technical expertise and strategic vision, empowering your team to deliver high-quality platform solutions in a fast-paced environment. You will shape Fiverr’s developer productivity strategy - optimizing the "inner loop," enhancing system reliability, and implementing innovative technologies, including Generative AI-driven automation, to provide developers with better self-service capabilities and insights.

What am I going to do?:

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers dedicated to developer productivity, fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
• Design and implement scalable, secure, and cost-efficient developer platforms and architectures that simplify the path to production.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging tools and best practices to enhance the developer experience and overall product quality.
• Drive standards of Infrastructure as Code, comprehensive observability, and automated testing to create a "paved road" for development teams.
• Monitor productivity metrics and infrastructure reliability, providing data-driven insights to leadership on how to improve engineering velocity.
• Guide the team in applying GenAI-native tools to automate documentation, provide self-service support for developers, and optimize performance.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders to influence architecture and development workflows, ensuring the platform meets the needs of all engineering teams.
• Hire and continue to build the team
• Report to the VP of Cloud Engineering, contributing to Fiverr's long-term technology roadmap for developer empowerment.
  
  

Requirements:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering, with at least 3+ years in a leadership/management role.
• Proven experience leading teams and driving alignment within matrixed organizations.
• Technical expertise in CI/CD pipelines, AWS, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and observability tools.
• Strong understanding of how infrastructure choices impact developer velocity and cloud cost modeling.
• Experience with Generative AI in a DevEx context, such as automating workflows, enhancing productivity, or creating intelligent alerting systems.
• Curiosity and ability to evaluate new AI-native tools and integrate them where they provide real value to the engineering community.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical developers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strategic mindset, comfortable managing competing priorities in a high-pressure environment.
  
  

Equal opportunities:

At Fiverr, we’re not about checklists. If you don’t meet 100% of the requirements for this role but still feel passionate about the position and think you have the right skills and qualifications to excel at it, we want to hear from you.

At Fiverr, we prioritize diversity. We celebrate difference and embed it into every aspect of our workplace and product, as well as our community. Fiverr is proud and committed to providing equal opportunity employment to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, citizenship, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In addition, Fiverr will provide accommodation to individuals with disabilities or a special need.