Senior Developer Experience Engineer

Forterra · Clarksburg, MD · Yesterday

EngineeringFull-time

About Forterra

At Forterra, we are unleashing autonomy at scale to transform the battlefield. Our mission is to build the foundational platforms that enable an intelligent ecosystem to coordinate, adapt, and execute with speed and precision even in the uncertainty and disruption of modern conflict. In an era marked by rapid technological change and evolving threats, we design for flexibility, survivability, and operational dominance. Forterra delivers weapons, sensors, and battlefield effects through integrated autonomous networks reaching operational areas faster, safer, and without placing human lives at risk. Our systems operate with distributed control, dynamic routing, and real-time responsiveness, enabling sustained advantage across complex mission environments.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Developer Experience Engineer to improve the developer experience across both Fabric and OneLink. The role combines software engineering, developer tooling, CI, SDK and extension development, documentation, testing, and direct collaboration with internal teams and external vendors. Together, Fabric and OneLink enable autonomous systems, operators, services, payloads, and external platforms to work together across unreliable and bandwidth-constrained environments.

What You'll Do

Build and maintain Fabric SDKs, client libraries, command-line tools, and reference integrations.
Build and maintain OneLink extension SDKs, APIs, templates, component libraries, and reference extensions.
Create reusable patterns for integrating platforms and payloads with Fabric and representing them within OneLink.
Develop automation for configuration, deployment, testing, debugging, validation, packaging, and release workflows.
Create integration, compatibility, regression, and end-to-end test environments across both platforms.
Create tools for inspecting, simulating, and troubleshooting Fabric systems and OneLink extensions.
Develop local development and test environments that allow extension developers to build and validate their work independently.
Write and maintain API documentation, extension guides, tutorials, onboarding material, and troubleshooting content.
Define and document extension interfaces, compatibility requirements, lifecycle expectations, and recommended development patterns.
Support internal teams and external vendors through onboarding, architecture reviews, integration support, debugging, and release preparation.
Create and deliver technical demonstrations, workshops, and reference implementations for Fabric and OneLink.
Turn developer feedback and support issues into improvements to tooling, APIs, platform interfaces, and documentation.
Communicate releases, migrations, compatibility changes, and known issues clearly across both platforms.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of professional software engineering, developer tooling, platform engineering, or test engineering experience.
Strong proficiency in one or more of Rust, C++, Python, TypeScript, or Go.
Experience building developer-facing SDKs, APIs, libraries, command-line tools, extensions, or automation.
Experience developing frontend applications using TypeScript and a modern component-based framework.
Experience with CI, software testing, build systems, release automation, and artifact management.
Experience designing and maintaining unit, integration, regression, and end-to-end tests.
Experience building or consuming web APIs and structured interfaces such as Protobuf or OpenAPI.
Strong Linux development and troubleshooting skills.
Ability to debug issues across frontend, backend, networking, build, deployment, and distributed system boundaries.
Strong technical writing and communication skills.
Experience working directly with developers, technical customers, or external integration partners.

Preferred Qualifications