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Bloomberg

Senior Software Engineer – DevX Developer Repository Collaboration

On site

London, United kingdom

Full Time

16-04-2025

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Job Specifications

In Bloomberg, the Developer Experience (DevX) group provides services and tooling that empowers over 9,000 engineers with their productivity needs and enables them to write high quality, highly performant code.

Our team within DevX is responsible for providing foundational source control services that are used many times a day by everyone in engineering, such as our large GitHub Enterprise deployment, along with integrations and supplemental services.

In our team, you’ll be responsible for managing services at enterprise scale with a focus on reliability. Alongside managing our services, you’ll be responsible for building integrations to complement vendored products such that they enhance our developer experience and reduce toil.

You Can Expect To Help Us With

Maintain, upgrade, and improve the firm’s source control services
Enhancing production visibility through alarming and telemetry
Improving the experience for geographically distant engineers
Creating self-service tooling and workflows to empower users and reduce toil

We’ll Trust You To

Identify and proactively manage risks to prevent foreseeable problems
Take ownership of projects and see delivery through to production
Apply evidence-based approaches to problem solving
Design processes and systems that apply at scale
Participate in our on-call schedule to assist with service problems and user queries
Perform planned out-of-hours maintenance about 3 times a year

You’ll Need To Have

Experience in Python or other scripting languages
Knowledge of all parts of the software development lifecycle
Passion for reliability of services
Broad knowledge of system-level troubleshooting
A good knowledge of Linux and command-line tooling
A proactive approach to managing projects and services
A drive to partner and collaborate with users and team members alike

We’d love to see:

Experience with managing services at enterprise scale
Prior work with automation, configuration management and provisioning tools, such as Ansible
A history of working with software vendors
Experience managing a GitHub Enterprise installation or other developer services

About the Company

Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, delivering trusted data, news, and insights that bring transparency, efficiency, and fairness to markets. The company helps connect influential communities across the global financial ecosystem via reliable technology solutions that enable our customers to make more informed decisions and foster better collaboration. Know more