# Senior Software Engineer - Release Engineering

**Company:** [Everlaw](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/everlaw)
**Location:** Oakland, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Java, Gradle, Bazel, Terraform, Helm, AWS, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Python, Bash
**Posted:** 2026-04-17

> Builds, optimizes, and hardens CI/CD pipelines, data models, and APIs for agent-ready release infrastructure in a JVM monorepo. Requires 5+ years in Release/DevOps/Platform Engineering with deep experience in Gradle/Bazel, IaC, and cloud systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Modernize and Scale Core CI/CD and Build Performance
- Reduce build and test times: Dive deep into Gradle/Bazel configurations and Java build graph to improve cache hit rates, parallelism, and resource utilization for monorepo.
- Increase signal quality: Systematically identify and eliminate flaky tests and unstable infrastructure in CI pipelines.
- Automate compliance: Build automations that generate FedRAMP and other audit artifacts from pipelines (e.g., change logs, approvals, evidence of controls).
- Measure what matters: 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: Shift logs and build outputs to structured, traceable formats.
- Encourage API-first operations: Build clear, idempotent APIs instead of ad-hoc scripts.
- Strengthen automated guardrails: Replace human-dependent review steps with policy and safety checks in code.
- Improve machine-friendly observability: Ensure build and release failures emit clear, parsable signals.

### Execute on Infrastructure as Code
- Own release infrastructure as code: Use **Terraform** and **Helm** to define and evolve infrastructure (runners, clusters, queues, controllers).
- Maintain and scale environments: Manage configuration drift, health, and scaling of pre-production and production targets.
- Enable safe, frequent deployments: Design deployment strategies (e.g., blue/green, canary, feature-flag-driven rollouts).
- Support ephemeral environments: Design PR- or feature-scoped environments for isolated validation.

### Lead, Mentor, and Collaborate
- Lead multi-developer efforts: Drive complex projects end-to-end.
- Mentor others: Provide technical mentorship on CI/CD, IaC, and agent-ready infrastructure; review designs and code.
- Participate in on-call rotation for critical incidents.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with focus on Release, DevOps, or Platform Engineering in cloud-based systems.
- Strong proficiency in **Java** or similar statically-typed language, and 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**) and improving performance, reliability.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, system design; familiarity with distributed systems and networking.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills; experience leading multi-developer efforts.

## Nice-to-Haves (Pluses)
- Experience with **Open Policy Agent (OPA)** and policy-as-code approaches.
- Experience working in regulated environments (e.g., **FedRAMP**, **HIPAA**, **SOC 2**).

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