Senior Build and Release Automation Engineer

About the role

NinjaOne is seeking a Senior Build and Release Automation Engineer to join our team. This role is highly visible and impactful, responsible for evolving NinjaOne's build platform into a self-service, secure, and performance-optimized delivery engine.

Location: Remote from the USA, with options for hybrid work. States allowed: CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, KS, MA, MD, ME, NJ, NC, NY, OR, TN, TX, VA, WA.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, versioning automation, and artifact signing across services and repositories.
• Define and roll out standardized build patterns, reusable pipeline templates, and “golden” configurations (CircleCI and related tooling).
• Manage and optimize build infrastructure (executors, runners, caching, containerized environments) to reduce lead time, flakiness, and cost.
• Partner with engineering and architecture teams to diagnose and resolve systemic build failures and dependency issues.
• Embed security and supply-chain controls into pipelines, including vulnerability scanning, secrets management, policy enforcement, and SBOM generation.
• Create and maintain clear documentation, runbooks, and onboarding materials for CI/CD standards and tooling.
• Mentor engineers and help teams adopt standardized build and release workflows.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, build/release engineering, or platform engineering with deep CI/CD automation expertise.
• Proven experience designing, scaling, and operating complex CI/CD systems using tools such as CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
• Strong expertise in Git-based workflows, branching strategies, pull request governance, and protected branch policies.
• Hands-on experience administering artifact repositories (e.g., JFrog Artifactory) including repository design and metadata management.
• Deep understanding of build systems and dependency management (Maven, Gradle, npm, etc.).
• Experience designing secure software supply-chain processes including signing, SBOM generation, and vulnerability scanning.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code experience (CDK, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, etc.) applied to CI/CD infrastructure.
• Experience with containerized build environments (Docker) and cloud platforms (AWS or equivalent).
• Proficiency in scripting or programming (Python, Bash, Go, etc.) to build automation tooling.
• Experience implementing release governance, audit traceability, and change management processes.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and rolling out standardized “golden pipeline” templates across large engineering organizations.
• Background in DevSecOps or software supply-chain security (attestations, signing frameworks, policy-as-code such as OPA/Conftest).
• Experience improving DORA metrics and delivery performance at scale.
• Prior experience leading CI/CD modernization, platform migrations, or tooling consolidation initiatives.
• Experience operating in high-growth SaaS or multi-region cloud environments.
• Familiarity with progressive delivery patterns such as blue/green or canary releases.

Skills

• Java, Kotlin, C++, Golang, and Postgres.
• Large-scale datastore bottlenecks, asynchronous application design, and client-server architecture.
• Git-based workflows, branching strategies, pull request governance, and protected branch policies.
• Artifact repositories (e.g., JFrog Artifactory) including repository design and metadata management.
• Build systems and dependency management (Maven, Gradle, npm, etc.).
• Secure software supply-chain processes including signing, SBOM generation, and vulnerability scanning.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (CDK, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, etc.) applied to CI/CD infrastructure.
• Containerized build environments (Docker) and cloud platforms (AWS or equivalent).
• Scripting or programming (Python, Bash, Go, etc.) to build automation tooling.
• Release governance, audit traceability, and change management processes.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan.
• Life insurance coverage.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Opportunity for growth and advancement.

Pay

Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to location, market demands, experience, job-related knowledge, and skills.

For roles based in California, Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey, or Washington the base salary hiring range for this position is $140,000 - $220,000 per year.

For roles based in New York, the base salary hiring range for this position is $140,000 - $220,000 per year.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.