Platform & Developer Experience Engineer

This role is located at our Corporate Office in Arden Hills MN. We offer a hybrid work environment that consists of 3 days in the office (T/W/Th) and 2 days remote/virtual (M/F).

This role does not offer full remote/virtual. This role does not offer relocation assistance.

Land OLakes will not consider this position for immigration sponsorship and all applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States

Land OLakes is seeking aPlatform & Developer Experience Engineerto join the Software Engineering team within our Technology this role you will design build and operate the internal developer experience that powers software delivery across the enterprise owning the developer journey from code generation through deployment. You will partner closely with developers security infrastructure and product teams to deliver self-service capabilities golden-path CI/CD templates and AI-assisted developer tooling that accelerates delivery reduces friction and embeds security and compliance by default.

This role anchors as the bridge between Infrastructure Security and Product development teams and enables the shift towards AIled software engineering model a strategic multi-year capability build. The right candidate pairs strong technical depth with the collaboration ownership and courage to influence engineering practice across the organization.

Position Purpose

• Own and evolve the GitHub Enterprise platformfor the IT organization covering the full developer workflow from code generation through deployment.

• Build self-service capabilitiesthat enable product teams to spin up applications or deploy agents with pre-baked IaC configurations security policies and container deployments from clean start to production.

• Develop and maintain golden-path CI/CD templatesthat enforce policy-as-code SAST scanning deployment gates and security guardrails by default.

• Operate AI-assisted developer tooling GitHub Copilot workflows usage policies audit trails Model Context Protocol (MCP) tooling and agent-based development patterns integrating AI capabilities directly into the developer workflow and golden paths.

• Establish a DevEx measurement loopwith metrics instrumentation and regularly cadenced feedback from Product Owners to surface friction points across the end-to-end developer journey.

• Drive measurable improvementsin developer productivity deployment frequency lead time for changes and change failure rate by focusing capacity on product-aligned outcome-driven priorities.

• Partner across Engineering Architecture Infrastructure and Security teams raising hard questions early sharing trade-offs transparently and using simplified execution to keep delivery moving toward high-impact outcomes within an Agile DevSecOps product-oriented culture.

• Take ownership of platform outcomes reliability performance scalability and cost and champion continuous improvement through experimentation prototyping and disciplined iteration informed by validated insights.

• Support Power Platform and RPA administrationthrough automation AI and platform analytics to streamline operations reporting governance and cost efficiency.

Required Experience & Education

• Bachelors degree in computer science software engineering or a related discipline or an equivalent combination of demonstrated skills and experience.

• 5 years of experience in Software Development or DevSecOps engineering role

• Hands-on experience with developer platforms (such as GitHub or Azure DevOps) and DevSecOps practices

• Working experience with Microsoft Azure Platform (App Service Container Apps AKS) or Similar Cloud Platforms

• Knowledge of creating infrastructure-as-code (Bicep ARM or Terraform)

• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language (Python C# TypeScript Go or similar).

Required Competencies & Other Skills

• Collaborationacross engineering security and product partners involves others appropriately welcomes input and shares information openly so there are no surprises.

• Ownershipof outcomes takes responsibility for both successes and failures follows through on commitments monitors progress and adjusts approach when results diverge from intent.

• Innovation mindset builds on new ideas and solutions experiments to learn applies new concepts to long-standing problems and adapts quickly from what doesnt work.

• Excellent communicationwith the ability to translate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and to turn raw developer feedback into a prioritized platform roadmap.

Preferred Experience

• Familiarity with AI developer tooling GitHub Copilot Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agent-based developer workflows

• Platform Administration Experience (a Plus)

• Experience with containerization (Docker Kubernetes) and modern deployment patterns including blue/green and canary releases (a Plus)

The salary range for this role is $93360 - $140040. In most cases candidates offered employment can expect to be hired at a pay rate near the middle of our salary ranges.

Land OLakes does not use Automated Decision-Making Technology as defined by California law to substantially replace human decision-making or make significant decisions about applications for employment or contracting opportunities.

About Land OLakes Inc.

Join us and be part of a Fortune 250 farmer- and member-owned cooperative that is reimagining the business of food. We have been named a Top Workplace by Indeed and LinkedIn and to the TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.

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