Principal Engineering Advisor

Responsibilities

• Provide practitioner-grounded commentary on research findings, data analyses, and frameworks produced by the research team.
• Co-author and contribute to flagship reports, essays, and talks.
• Develop and contribute to practitioner frameworks, playbooks, and maturity models drawn from your own experience and your network's collective wisdom.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to DX's largest customers and prospects.
• Lead workshops, advisory sessions, and executive briefings where engineering leaders are looking for guidance from someone who's been in their seat.
• Participate in customer inquiries and consultations helping engineering leaders apply DX's research and data to their specific organizational challenges.
• Build and maintain relationships with senior engineering leaders across the industry.
• Represent DX on conference stages, executive panels, industry podcasts, and at invite-only dinners and roundtables.
• Be a visible, recognized voice in the developer productivity and engineering leadership community.
• Build DX's reputation as the place where senior engineering leaders go for guidance.
• Shipping cadence: Each Member Of This Team Is Expected To Produce Two "small ships" per month and One "big ship" per quarter.

Qualifications

• You've led engineering organizations or platform/developer experience teams at scale—typically as a VP of Engineering, Head of Platform, Head of Developer Experience, Senior Director of Engineering, or similar.
• You've made real decisions about developer productivity, tooling, and team design with real consequences.
• You are known and respected by senior engineering leaders. VPs of Engineering and CTOs at Fortune 500 companies would take your call, attend your talk, or want you at their dinner table.
• You've been on stages, on panels, on podcasts, or in rooms where senior engineering leaders gather.
• You can provide sharp, credible commentary on data and research without needing to run the analysis yourself.
• You know how to read a dataset, provide commentary or reactions, and translate it into guidance that a busy CTO would act on.
• You're a strong writer and communicator.
• You're opinionated but intellectually honest. You have strong views on how engineering organizations should be run, but you update those views when the evidence changes.
• You're looking for a role where you can Shape how an entire industry thinks about developer productivity and AI.
• You combine your real-world experience with data from hundreds of engineering organizations to produce guidance that actually changes how leaders operate.
• You're the person that Fortune 500 engineering leaders turn to for advice, backed by the data, brand, and distribution engine of DX and Atlassian.
• You work alongside world-class researchers and a team that takes the craft of insight seriously.
• You build a body of work you're proud of.