Release Engineer

Blumhouse; Rapid City (SD); On-site; USD 86,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Blumhouse in Rapid City is seeking a senior Release Engineer to translate no-ego requirements into dependable systems. Bring 5 years of experience and join a team focused on reliable deployments, fast experimentation, and scalable tooling.

Expect competitive compensation and a runway that supports growth at your own pace, with opportunities to own important parts of the stack and improve developer velocity across Rapid City teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in release engineering or similar role.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and deployment pipelines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design Spring Boot APIs for internal Rapid City teams and ensure reliability.
• Ship AWS experiments quickly and iterate on successful approaches.
• Build responsive front-end interfaces with Swift to support internal tooling.
• Prototype new Swift ideas and select those fit for Blumhouse stack.
• Develop internal tooling to boost developer productivity and velocity.
• Create Spring Boot self-service tools reducing ticket volume for Rapid City teams.
• Integrate RabbitMQ feature flags to enable safe testing on local traffic.

Skills

5 years experience

Critical thinking

Communication

Documentation

Tools

Spring Boot

AWS

Swift

RabbitMQ

Job description

Join Blumhouse as a senior Release Engineer and spend your days turning no-ego requirements into systems that quietly do their job. Bring 5 years to this SD Release Engineer job and Blumhouse answers with $86,000 - $127,000 and a runway that keeps unrolling.

Key Responsibilities

• Design Spring Boot APIs other Rapid City, SD teams will still thank you for next year
• Ship AWS experiments fast, kill the losers, and double down on what sticks
• Build responsive, accessible front-end interfaces with Swift
• Prototype rough Swift ideas fast, then decide which earn a place in Blumhouse's stack
• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity
• Build Spring Boot self-service tools so Rapid City teams stop filing tickets for everything
• Wire up RabbitMQ feature flags so Blumhouse can test on Rapid City traffic risk-free

What You'll Bring

• A Rapid City grounding, or the adaptability to plant roots quickly
• Critical thinking skills and sound, independent judgment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Clarity of thought that shows up in tidy documentation
• Comfort being accountable for a growth-minded outcome in a full-time role

Blumhouse was founded on a hunch that technology could be far less awful, and Rapid City turned out to be the perfect place to prove it. Ownership at Blumhouse means you fix the broken thing even when nobody assigned it to you.

What we put on the table: $86,000 - $127,000, coaching for your Attention to Detail, benefits worth having, and freedom to grow at your own pace.