Staff Software Applications Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own CI/CD infrastructure and identify improvements that accelerate engineering velocity.
• Partner with developers to remove build and deployment friction.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines at scale and build solutions that support organizational growth.
• Automate releases and deployments using cloud, containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and GitOps tools.
• Respond to incidents and diagnose and triage build failures.
• Create clear, maintainable documentation for systems and processes.
• Mentor junior team members and improve team capabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of total professional experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in build and release engineering roles.
• Advanced proficiency with Jenkins Declarative and Scripted Pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with Maven and Gradle and strong scripting knowledge.
• Expert-level proficiency with Bash and Groovy.
• Strong GitHub experience and proficiency with Git workflows, branching strategies, merge management, and pull request review.
• Experience integrating AI/ML agents into CI/CD workflows and using GitHub Copilot for code generation and automation scripting.
• Familiarity with Claude.ai or similar large language models for documentation and problem-solving.
• Hands-on experience with AWS or other public cloud platforms, including Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, and Flux.
• Experience with artifact repositories such as Artifactory and Nexus.
• Knowledge of release automation, deployment strategies, incident response, build failure triage, and Linux command-line operations.
• Strong communication, collaboration, documentation, problem-solving, follow-through, mentoring, and async communication skills.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance may be available depending on country, role, and employment status.
• Flexible work schedules and work-from-home opportunities where the role permits.
• Paid time off, including open time off in eligible markets and statutory leave in all markets.
• Paid holidays according to local practice.
• Retirement savings programs, including RRSP matching in Canada.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program where eligible.
• Employee assistance program.
• Tuition reimbursement where eligible.
• Full-time position based in Salem, New Hampshire or Raleigh, North Carolina, with distributed-team collaboration across multiple time zones.
• Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
• The employer is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas, including H-1B visas.