Mission-Critical Software Release Lead

Linuxcareers; Irvine, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 166,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA is seeking a Release Manager to define and manage software releases aligned with program milestones, ensuring production-quality software for safety and mission-critical systems across multiple product variants.

You will own the release process, collaborate with system engineers and product teams, automate builds, tests, and deployments in CI/CD, and ensure compliance with DoD SDLC and security requirements while presenting updates to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience owning a software release process.
• Experience with software build automation tooling such as GitHub, CircleCI, and other DevOps relevant tools
• Proven track record managing deployment of production software and interacting with CI/CD pipelines
• Strong coding skills with background in automated test coverage infrastructure (on-device and in the cloud); experience in at least one of C++, Rust, or Go, and proficiency in Python and Bash/Command Line scripting
• Familiarity with Department of Defense (DoD) ecosystem for Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including MIL-STD-882 for System Safety Engineering, Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), and DevSecOps best practices
• Ability to present strategic, technical, and operational updates to stakeholders at all levels
• U.S. Person status required due to access to export-controlled data
• Must be eligible to obtain and hold a US DoD Security Clearance

Responsibilities

• Work closely with System Engineers and Product teams to translate software requirements into release plans and deliverables
• Ensure timely delivery of software release artifacts including supporting documentation
• Implement and manage automated testing and deployment processes in established CI/CD environments, utilizing Git and CI automations for nightly and automated builds
• Define and develop software-in-the-loop (SITL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) tests to validate system-level performance and assure system quality
• Manage and coordinate deployment of development releases to test and evaluation teams for validation, and continuously improve release and quality processes

Skills

Release management

CI/CD automation

GitHub

CircleCI

Python scripting

Bash scripting

DoD SDLC

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Nix/NixOS

Unix/Linux tooling

Valgrind

Perf

Job description

Anduril Industries in Irvine, CA is seeking a Release Manager to define and manage software releases aligned with program milestones, ensuring production-quality software for safety and mission-critical systems across multiple product variants.

You will own the release process, collaborate with system engineers and product teams, automate builds, tests, and deployments in CI/CD, and ensure compliance with DoD SDLC and security requirements while presenting updates to stakeholders.