Principal DevOps Engineer

Airlock Digital; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K with match

Parental leave

Paid time off

Home office allowance

Job summary

Airlock Digital, a cybersecurity software leader, seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to elevate CI/CD, release systems, and security controls across Windows, macOS, and Linux. You’ll collaborate with engineering, product, QA, security, and support to ship dependable software with reduced manual effort.

You will design reusable workflows, enforce gates and policies, and enhance deployment observability, incident response, and release readiness for a multi-tenant SaaS portfolio, including

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering or DevOps experience, including ownership of complex production build, test, deployment, and release systems.
• Strong experience building and operating CI/CD systems with gates for testing.
• Experience writing automation code with readability and error handling.
• Production experience delivering cloud services with observability, alerting, and incident response.
• Knowledge of software supply-chain security including artifact integrity and signing credentials.
• Experience automating builds, packaging, signing, or releases on Windows, macOS, or Linux.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability and continual improvement of CI/CD and release systems across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• Implement and maintain pull request controls, permissions, and security gates for tests.
• Improve deployment observability, alerting, and release readiness; investigate failures.
• Improve software supply-chain controls with automated security checks and signing materials.
• Modernize build and release workflows while preserving OS support and upgrade behavior.
• Troubleshoot delivery failures and mentor engineers in reliable build and release practices.

Skills

CI/CD systems

Git workflows

Automation code

Cloud services

Security controls

Observability

Cross-platform

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Location: San Francisco, Denver, Boston, Remote

Who Are We?

About Airlock Digital:

Airlock Digital is a global leader in application control and allowlisting. We seek to empower every organization to run only what they trust and operate free from malware and ransomware.

With rapid growth across Australia, North America, and EMEA. We are committed to our core values, respect, determination, and integrity. We support a diverse and expanding global customer base. At Airlock, we pride ourselves on being a team of humble, collaborative, and driven professionals who support one another and share a passion for cybersecurity.

What We are Looking For:

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to improve the systems Airlock Digital uses to build, test, secure, and release its customer-hosted and multi-tenant SaaS products. You will work across engineering to design reliable delivery workflows,applyand improve team standards, and help product teams ship dependable software with less manual effort.

Our delivery environment spans cloud services, customer-hosted products, native endpoint software, Linux packages, containers, and signed installers. You will build and support the systems that test, secure, promote, and release them, working with engineering, product, QA, security, and support.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the reliability and continual improvement of the CI/CD and release systems youmaintainfor cloud services and native software across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Design and implement reusable workflows with product teams, using delivery measures and engineering judgment toidentifyrisks, remove bottlenecks, and improve release confidence.

• Implement andmaintainpullrequestand branch policies, including permissions, merge checks, approvals, and security controls. Work with product teams to build dependable gates for unit, integration, end-to-end, packaging, upgrade, and platform-compatibility tests.

• Improvedeploymentobservability, alerting, and release readiness. Partner with engineering teams to investigate build, deployment, and release failures, and use incident findings to improve release safety and recovery.

• Implement and improve softwaresupply-chaincontrols with engineering and security teams, including automated security checks, artifact integrity, and auditable release promotion. Protect CI credentials and signing material through least-privilege access and managed secret stores.

• Modernize existing build and release workflows while preserving supported operating systems, architectures, installation paths, and upgrade behavior.

• Troubleshoot complex delivery failures, review automation changes, and mentor engineers in reliable build and release practices.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 7+ years of professional software engineering or DevOps experience, including ownership of complex production build, test, deployment, and release systems, contributions to technical design and standards, and support for other engineers.

• Strong experience building and operating CI/CD systems.This should include Git pull request controls, branch policies, change-management integration, and quality gates for several types of automated testing.

• Experience writing, testing, and maintaining automation code in a programming or scripting language, with attention to readability, error handling, and code review.

• Production experience delivering cloud services, includingsecretsmanagement, environment promotion and rollback, observability, alerting, and incident response.

• Working knowledge of softwaresupply-chainsecurity, with hands-on experience in areas such as vulnerability management, artifact integrity, signing credentials, provenance, or auditable release controls.

• Experience automating builds, packaging, signing, or releases on at leastone ofWindows, macOS, or Linux, with the ability to learn and troubleshoot delivery workflows acrossadditionalplatforms.

Nice-to-Have Skills and Experience

• Experience with application control, endpoint security, oranothersecurity-critical productwherereleaseintegrity and auditability matter.

• Experience delivering and operating production servicesonAzure.

• Experience building self-service developer tooling used by multiple product teams.

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field is preferred but notrequired; equivalent practical experience is welcomed.

What We Offer:

We don’t think money is everything, but we know it is an important part of your decision to apply for a role. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include responsibilities of the job, education, location, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and internal equity, alignment with market data, or applicable laws.

At Airlock Digital we offer a wide range of benefits to our eligible team members. Our benefit programs vary by location and can include Medical, dental, and vision insurance – 401K Plan with 4% Company Match – Life and Disability Programs – Paid Parental Leave - Paid time off and Paid Holidays – Volunteer and Birthday Time off – Home Office Allowance

Our Commitment:

We believe in supporting our team members both personally and professionally. Named one of the USA’s Greatest Places to Work in 2024 and 2025, we value flexibility, trust, and a work environment that empowers our team to do their best work.