Houston, Texas /Oslo, Norway: Head of Developer Experience

We are looking for the right people — people who want to innovate, achieve, grow and lead. We attract and retain the best talent by investing in our employees and empowering them to develop themselves and their careers. Experience the challenges, rewards and opportunity of working for one of the world’s largest providers of products and services to the global energy industry.

 

About Landmark

Landmark, a Halliburton company, builds the software and data platforms that help the global energy industry make better decisions. Our products span subsurface interpretation, well construction planning, reservoir simulation, and digital operations. These are tools used daily by engineers and scientists at the world’s largest energy companies. We are investing significantly in our engineering capability, and the Director of Developer Experience leads one of the most important bets in that investment: making every engineer at Landmark dramatically more productive.

 

About the Role

• Landmark’s engineering organization runs hundreds of engineers across multiple product domains. The way those engineers develop software — from the moment they open their laptop to the moment a release is ready for production — has significant room to improve, and the opportunity to apply what modern tooling and AI-assisted development make possible is real and largely untapped
• This role exists to lead that work
• As Director of Developer Experience, you will own the full software delivery lifecycle across three interconnected dimensions: the local loop (the on-machine experience, including environment setup, local build and run performance, and cloud-based development environments), the inner loop (the code-to-pre-production journey, including CI/CD pipelines, branch and merge strategy, quality gates, and the organizational shift to trunk-based development and small, frequent increments), and the outer loop through release management (versioning, release pipeline automation, staging environments, release readiness criteria, and the process that produces a fully validated, deployment-ready artifact). The release-ready artifact is the handoff to SRE, who own the final production readiness check and the decision to push to production
• Responsibilities is to ensure that what arrives at that handoff is consistently complete, validated, and accompanied by everything SRE needs to make that call with confidence
• Responsible for leading a substantial team of engineers and developer advocates who build, operate, and consult on the systems and practices that make this possible. You will also own Landmark’s strategy for agentic coding: the adoption of AI coding agents and tools that go beyond autocomplete to meaningfully accelerate how engineers write, review, and reason about code. That means hardware strategy, software procurement, IT policy advocacy, and the organizational change management required to make these tools effective at scale.

 

What You Will Do

Local Loop and Development Environment

• Own the on-machine development experience for Landmark engineers: environment standardization, toolchain consistency, local build performance, and developer hardware strategy
• Drive adoption of cloud-based development environments, including remote dev environments, dev containers, and cloud dev boxes, to eliminate environment drift and reduce time-to-productivity for new engineers and new codebases
• Partner with IT to define and advocate for hardware procurement standards, software licensing policies, and security configurations that enable engineering velocity rather than constrain it

 

Inner Loop, Release Management, and SDLC Acceleration

• Own the CI/CD platform and pipeline strategy across Landmark engineering: build speed, test coverage gates, artifact management, and deployment to staging and pre-production environments
• Drive the organizational shift to trunk-based development and “develop small” practices, including short-lived branches, frequent integration, feature flags, and incremental delivery
• Define and enforce inner loop quality standards — automated test coverage thresholds, code review practices, PR size norms, and merge readiness criteria — that make shipping fast and safe at the same time
• Own release management: release pipeline automation, versioning strategy, staging environment management, release readiness criteria, and the process that produces a fully validated, production-ready artifact