DevOps Build & Release Engineer | CI/CD Automation

Speedrun Talent Network; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwood Space is seeking a Developer Experience Engineer to own the build system, CI pipelines, and developer environments used by FPGA, embedded, DSP, cloud, and ground teams. You will build fast, reproducible paths from commit to release and measure progress to improve cycle times.

You’ll sit on the Platform team, collaborating with every engineering discipline to ship reliable software across cloud services and field deployments, from development through production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience in build engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, developer productivity, or platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience owning CI pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Buildkite, or similar) for a multi-team codebase.
• Proficiency in Python and shell scripting; ability to read and build Rust or C/C++ projects.
• Solid understanding of containers, Linux, and Git workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose and fix slow or unreliable builds, with specific examples.

Responsibilities

• Own the build system: reproducibility, caching, build times, and cross-platform targets spanning cloud services, embedded firmware, and FPGA gateware.
• Design and maintain reusable GitLab CI templates and pipeline components, with fast early checks ahead of expensive builds and tests, and drive down flakiness and cycle time with data.
• Build reproducible developer environments so new engineers are productive on day one.
• Implement release automation and promotion mechanics from development through staging to production, including artifact signing and supply chain checks.
• Instrument the build and CI system, publish developer productivity metrics, and use them to prioritize the tooling roadmap.
• Support engineers on build and pipeline issues and turn recurring problems into permanent fixes.

Skills

Python

Shell scripting

Rust/C/C++ familiarity

Git workflows

CI/CD concepts

Linux

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field

Tools

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Buildkite

Nix

OCI

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Job description

Northwood Space is seeking a Developer Experience Engineer to own the build system, CI pipelines, and developer environments used by FPGA, embedded, DSP, cloud, and ground teams. You will build fast, reproducible paths from commit to release and measure progress to improve cycle times.

You’ll sit on the Platform team, collaborating with every engineering discipline to ship reliable software across cloud services and field deployments, from development through production.