# Sr. Software Engineer I

**Company:** [Invoca](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/invoca)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $127k – $191k/yr
**Skills:** CI/CD, Buildkite, Backstage, Argo CD, Kubernetes, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Bundler, Auth0, OAuth, OIDC, Terraform, Observability
**Posted:** 2026-04-23

> Senior Software Engineer building and evolving CI/CD tooling, driving Ruby/Rails upgrades, standardizing authentication, and enabling platform self-service in a PAAS environment. Requires expertise in release engineering, Kubernetes, and Ruby ecosystem.

## Job Description

## You Will

**Own and evolve CI/CD "paved road" tooling**
- Build and maintain reliable, scalable CI/CD workflows (guardrails, automation, reusable patterns/templates).
- Enhance Backstage as the unified developer portal, improving CI/CD visibility, deployment tracking, and self-service workflows.
- Improve developer feedback loops: reduce flaky pipelines, speed up builds/tests, and increase observability of the release toolchain.
- Operationally support release tooling (triage, incident follow-ups, preventative improvements).

**Drive Ruby/Rails platform upgrades (monolith + ecosystem)**
- Lead or heavily contribute to Ruby and Rails upgrade efforts, including:
  - Coordinating cross-repo changes (application, Docker/CI images, shared gems, test strategy).
  - Creating safe rollout plans (canaries, staged deploys, rollback paths) and enabling other teams through docs/runbooks.

**Platform enablement**
- Build and improve self-service tooling and Golden Path workflows through Backstage, CI/CD templates, and standardized patterns so service teams can safely own their own infra, config, and auth changes without gatekeepers.
- Help standardize and operationalize Auth0 and other authentication/authorization patterns across environments.
- Partner with service teams to drive Golden Path adoption, unblock migrations, and turn platform investments into org-wide leverage.

**Embrace AI to accelerate delivery and improve developer experience**
- Use AI-assisted development responsibly to increase throughput and quality (e.g., faster iteration, better testing strategies, improved docs/runbooks).
- Help the org adopt AI tools safely and effectively by sharing best practices and patterns.

## You Have

- CI/CD, Release Engineering, (Buildkite/Backstage)
- ArgoCD, Kubernetes
- Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Bundler, dependency management
- Runtime/framework upgrades (Ruby upgrades, Rails upgrades)
- Auth0 (or similar IdP), OAuth/OIDC concepts, M2M authentication
- Terraform / infrastructure-as-code (nice-to-have)
- Observability, on-call/operational support, incident analysis
- AI-assisted development (Cursor, Claude Code) and best-practice sharing
- Working experience in a PAAS environment

**Compensation:** Base salary range $127,000-$191,000 plus bonus potential.

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