Release Engineer I/II: Automate & Stabilize Deployments

Cubic Corporation; Ashburn, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 92,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k with company match

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Cubic Corporation in Ashburn, VA is seeking a Software Engineer I/II focused on Release Engineering to own the release process for a distributed software platform. You will coordinate platform releases, manage versioning across repositories and services, and automate CI/CD to deliver reliable releases.

The role emphasizes automation, systems integration, and improving release quality, with collaboration across engineering, product, and operations teams.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of professional software engineering, DevOps, or release engineering experience.
• Ability to obtain a security clearance.
• Experience with Git, branching, tagging, PRs, and versioning.
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems and automated build or deployment pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute platform releases in coordination with the broader product release schedule.
• Coordinate versioning and release readiness across repositories, services, deployment charts, container images, and supporting components.
• Maintain release branches, tags, changelogs, release notes, and supporting documentation.
• Build and improve CI/CD automation for compiling, testing, packaging, publishing, and deploying releases.

Skills

Git

CI/CD

Containers

Automation

Release management

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Artifact signing

Job description

Cubic Corporation in Ashburn, VA is seeking a Software Engineer I/II focused on Release Engineering to own the release process for a distributed software platform. You will coordinate platform releases, manage versioning across repositories and services, and automate CI/CD to deliver reliable releases.

The role emphasizes automation, systems integration, and improving release quality, with collaboration across engineering, product, and operations teams.