Mechanical Engineer

Energy Innovation Corp; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Benefits package

Flexible schedules

Job summary

Pizza Hut in Santa Ana, CA is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to join a small, opinionated engineering team. The role offers a salary floor of $135,000–$195,000 and a path that rises with 5 years of ownership of technology.

The position is based in Santa Ana with mentorship and a robust benefits package as part of the open role. From our Santa Ana, CA office, Pizza Hut ships quick-to-ship products used by companies large and small.

Qualifications

• 5 years of CI/CD practice, plus a hunger for what's next.
• Written communication clear enough to survive a forwarded email chain
• Comfort defending a recommendation in front of skeptics
• Confident communicator across email, calls, and in-person meetings
• Demonstrated knack for making the empathy-led feel manageable

Responsibilities

• Map data flow across Pizza Hut's GitLab CI services and spot the leaks
• Hunt down the latency spikes nobody at Pizza Hut can explain
• Pair-program tricky CI/CD edge cases with engineers across Santa Ana, CA
• Build RabbitMQ self-service tools so Santa Ana teams stop filing tickets for everything
• Champion engineering excellence and continuous learning within Pizza Hut
• Pair with cross-functional partners to scope and deliver remote projects
• Stand up observability so Pizza Hut sees failures before customers in CA do
• Prototype rough Laravel ideas fast, then decide which earn a place in Pizza Hut's stack

Skills

CI/CD experience

Written communication

Defend recommendations

Cross-functional communicator

Empathy-led approach

Tools

GitLab CI

Job description

Pizza Hut keeps a small, opinionated engineering team in Santa Ana, and the next opinion we need belongs to a Mechanical Engineer. The $135,000 - $195,000 is the floor, not the ceiling; with 5 years and technology ownership, this Pizza Hut role keeps rising.

Key Responsibilities

• Map data flow across Pizza Hut's GitLab CI services and spot the leaks
• Hunt down the latency spikes nobody at Pizza Hut can explain
• Pair-program tricky CI/CD edge cases with engineers across Santa Ana, CA
• Build RabbitMQ self-service tools so Santa Ana teams stop filing tickets for everything
• Champion engineering excellence and continuous learning within Pizza Hut
• Pair with cross-functional partners to scope and deliver remote projects
• Stand up observability so Pizza Hut sees failures before customers in CA do
• Prototype rough Laravel ideas fast, then decide which earn a place in Pizza Hut's stack

What You'll Bring

• 5 years of CI/CD práctica, plus a hunger for what's next
• Written communication clear enough to survive a forwarded email chain
• Comfort defending a recommendation in front of skeptics
• Confident communicator across email, calls, and in-person meetings
• Demonstrated knack for making the empathy-led feel manageable

From our Santa Ana, CA office, Pizza Hut ships quick-to-ship products used by companies large and small. We'd rather coach a builder-led learner than babysit a brilliant jerk, every single time.

We do not just dangle $135,000 - $195,000; we back it with mentorship, a real benefits suite, and schedules that bend around Santa Ana, CA living.

This posting reflects an open need we are working to close this quarter.