Senior Software Engineer - Release Engineering

About the role

This is an execution-heavy, software engineering role, not a “keep the lights on” position maintaining legacy tooling. You will be writing code, tuning Gradle/Bazel builds, debugging CI flakes, and implementing the specific API endpoints that allow both humans and agents to interact with our infrastructure safely. You will build the high-performance plumbing that powers our transition to an agent-ready platform.

Responsibilities

• Modernize and Scale Core CI/CD and Build Performance
• Reduce build and test times
• Systematically identify and eliminate flaky tests and unstable infrastructure in our CI pipelines
• Build automations that generate FedRAMP and other audit artifacts from our pipelines
• Instrument CI/CD and release workflows with metrics and dashboards for latency, reliability, cost, and failure modes
• Evolve Toward Automated & Agentic Workflows
• Improve data hygiene
• Encourage API-first operations
• Support efforts to replace purely human-dependent review steps with policy and safety checks in code
• Improve machine-friendly observability
• Execute on Infrastructure as Code
• Own release infrastructure as code
• Maintain and scale environments
• Enable safe, frequent deployments
• Support ephemeral environments
• Participate in on-call
• Lead, Mentor, and Collaborate
• Drive complex projects end-to-end
• Mentor others
• Collaborate with Product, Security, SRE, and AI/Agentic DevEx

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on Release, DevOps, or Platform Engineering in cloud-based systems
• Strong proficiency in Java or a similar statically-typed language, and comfort scripting in Python and/or Bash
• Deep, hands-on experience with build tools such as Gradle, Bazel, or Maven at scale
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) using Terraform or similar IaC tools
• Experience operating modern CI/CD platforms (e.g., GitHub Actions, Harness, GitLab CI, or similar)
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design, and familiarity with distributed systems and networking concepts
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and demonstrated experience leading multi-developer efforts, including planning and technical breakdown

Qualifications

• Someone who values “boring” reliability: you take pride in pipelines that run thousands of times without failure, and you build in error handling, retries, and idempotency by default
• Excited about AI and agents, even if you are not training models yourself. You understand that for AI agents to be effective, the underlying infrastructure must be deterministic, observable, and API-driven, and you are motivated to build that foundation

Skills

• Experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and policy-as-code approaches
• Experience working in regulated environments (e.g., FedRAMP, HIPAA, SOC 2) and familiarity with their change-management and audit requirements
• Experience using AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) and interest in integrating them into developer workflows and CI/CD tooling
• Experience with Bazel and/or multi-language monorepos
• Contributions to open-source CI/CD, release, or IaC tooling, or public speaking/writing on developer productivity or release engineering

Benefits

• The expected salary range for this role is between $188,000 and $251,000. The final offered salary will be dependent upon many factors including the candidate’s experience and skills. The base pay range is subject to change in the future.
• Equity program
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
• Health, dental, and vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
• Paid parental leave and approximately 10 days (80 hours) per year of sick leave
• Seventeen paid vacation days plus 11 federal holidays
• Membership to Modern Health to help employees prioritize mental health and wellness
• Annual allocation for Learning & Development opportunities and applicable professional membership dues
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance

Perks

• Work in Uptown Oakland, just steps from the BART line and dozens of restaurants and walking distance to Lake Merritt
• Flexible work-from-home days on Tuesdays and Fridays
• Monthly home internet reimbursement
• Select your preference of hardware (Mac or PC) and customize your desk setup
• Enjoy a wide variety of snacks and beverages in the office
• Bond over company-wide out-of-the-box events and fun activities with your team
• Time off for company-sponsored volunteer events and 4 paid hours per quarter to volunteer at a charitable organization of your choice
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