Software Engineer I/II – Release Engineering

Join a junior-to-mid-level role focused on owning and improving the release process for a distributed software platform in an onsite position in Ashburn, VA.

Responsibilities

• Fix software defects and update dependencies to remediate security vulnerabilities.
• Plan and deliver platform releases aligned to the broader product release schedule.
• Coordinate versioning and release readiness across multiple repositories, services, deployment charts, container images, and supporting components.
• Maintain release branches, tags, changelogs, release notes, and supporting documentation.
• Develop and enhance CI/CD automation for compiling, testing, packaging, publishing, and deploying releases.
• Validate releases in representative environments prior to promotion.
• Verify compatibility across control-plane services, runtime components, platform adapters, shared contracts, and supported integrations.
• Track dependency and component revisions included in each release.
• Coordinate with engineers, product owners, quality teams, platform teams, and other stakeholders on release scope and timing.
• Investigate failed builds, deployments, and release-validation test results.
• Document known issues, upgrade requirements, rollback procedures, and operational considerations.
• Create repeatable release checklists, quality gates, and readiness reporting.
• Identify manual release steps and replace them with safe automation over time.
• Support post-release verification and resolve or escalate release-related issues.

Requirements

• Approximately 2 to 4 years of professional experience in software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or release engineering.
• Ability to obtain a security clearance.
• Working knowledge of Git including branching, tagging, pull requests, and structured versioning.
• Experience using CI/CD systems and automated build or deployment pipelines.
• Familiarity with containers and modern deployment environments.
• Ability to read and troubleshoot code in at least one modern programming language.
• Comfort working across multiple repositories and tracking dependency relationships between components.
• Experience diagnosing failures in builds, tests, configuration, or deployments.
• Strong written communication skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to follow an established release process while proposing practical improvements.
• Willingness to coordinate across multiple engineering teams and release schedules.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes, deployment charts, container registries, and image promotion.
• Familiarity with backend, frontend, or systems programming languages and frameworks.
• Experience maintaining release notes, upgrade documentation, or deployment runbooks.
• Familiarity with API contracts, service interfaces, and distributed systems.
• Experience with integration or end-to-end testing in containerized environments.
• Exposure to software supply-chain practices such as dependency scanning, artifact signing, SBOM generation, or vulnerability management.
• Experience supporting coordinated releases across related products or platforms.

Technologies

• Git
• CI/CD
• Containers
• Kubernetes
• Deployment charts
• Container registries
• SBOM
• API contracts

Compensation

• Salary: USD 92,000 - 105,000 per year
• Pay range: $92,000.00 - $105,000.00 + benefits

Location & Work Type

• Location: Ashburn, VA (onsite)
• Worker type: Employee