Forterra
Senior Developer Experience Engineer
Clarksburg, MD · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- Fabric is Forterra's distributed systems platform for registering, discovering, and replicating mission-critical data across dynamic mesh networks.
- OneLink is Forterra's web-based command-and-control platform.
- Together, Fabric and OneLink enable autonomous systems, operators, services, payloads, and external platforms to work together across unreliable and bandwidth-constrained environments.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Build 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.
Requirements
- 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 with CI, software testing, build systems, release automation, and artifact management.
- Experience designing and maintaining unit, integration, regression, and end-to-end tests.
Nice to have
- Experience with edge computing, robotics, embedded systems, networking, or real-time systems.
- Experience designing or working with plugin, extension, or micro-frontend architectures.
- Experience with React, TypeScript, frontend build systems, and package management.
- Experience with distributed systems, publish/subscribe middleware, or message-oriented architectures.
- Experience with Docker, CMake, Bazel, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar tooling.
- Experience with documentation platforms such as Docusaurus, MkDocs, or Sphinx.
- Experience creating operational dashboards, debugging tools, or system visualizations.
- Experience with simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, or distributed integration testing.
Benefits
- Three plan options, including an HSA-eligible plan, with Forterra covering 80% of the plan premium for you and your dependents.
- Basic Life/AD&D, short and long-term disability insurance plans 100% covered by Forterra, plus the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents.
- Extremely generous company holiday calendar including a winter break in December.
- Competitive paid time off (PTO) offering 20 days accrued per year.
- A minimum of 7 weeks fully paid parental leave for birth/adoption.
- A $9k annual tuition reimbursement or professional development stipend.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan, including traditional, Roth 401(k), and after-tax deferral with company match up to 4%.
- Your recruiter will be able to share more information about our salary and benefits offering during the hiring process.
Company info
- About Forterra At Forterra, we are unleashing autonomy at scale to transform the battlefield.
- We are seeking a Senior Developer Experience Engineer to improve the developer experience across both Fabric and OneLink.
Equal opportunity
- Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.
Visa & Work Authorization
- security clearance
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