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Senior DevOps/Build System Engineer
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Role overview Own the build and release systems behind a large software product with many interdependent components and multiple supported release lines. The work spans build infrastructure, packaging, artifact distribution, and release automation, with a focus on making outputs reproducible, traceable, and dependable for development and QA teams.
Responsibilities - Design and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, build agents, build farms, artifact storage, dependency management, and caching. - Assemble, validate, sign, promote, publish, and support rollback of release packages, images, and installation artifacts. - Keep build definitions and toolchains working across several languages and build systems as dependencies evolve. - Maintain artifact versioning, changelogs, provenance, software bill of materials (SBOM) data, and integrations for security scans and audits. - Automate build and release tasks and help developers and QA teams diagnose failures and run branch or merge-request builds. - Investigate intermittent failures, improve build validation and test gating, and document processes for others to reproduce.
Requirements - At least five years in build, release, or DevOps engineering for complex software, including ownership of a build system. - Strong CI/CD experience with a platform such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions, plus pipeline-as-code and artifact repositories. - Experience packaging and distributing Linux binaries, including signing artifacts and managing repositories or release channels. - Ability to maintain build definitions across multiple languages and tools such as make, CMake, or autotools. - Knowledge of dependency management, reproducible and hermetic builds, incremental builds, and caching. - Solid Python and shell scripting, Linux systems knowledge, Git and release branching experience, and strong communication skills.
Benefits and work setup The listed U.S. annual target compensation range is $123,000–$160,000. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, FSA options, disability and life insurance, a 401(k) with employer match, and vacation.