Release Engineer: Platform CI/CD & Automation

Cubic Corporation; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 92,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401k match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Cubic Corporation is seeking a junior-to-mid-level software engineer to own and improve the release process for a distributed software platform in Ashburn, VA. You will coordinate platform releases, maintain documentation, and build automation to ensure reliable deployments across multiple components.

The role offers growth into end-to-end ownership with collaboration across product, quality, and platform teams, while contributing to secure, well-documented release processes and a strong focus

Qualifications

• 2–4 years professional software engineering or release engineering experience.
• Ability to obtain a security clearance.
• Experience with Git, branching, tagging, pull requests, and structured versioning.
• Experience with CI/CD systems and automated build or deployment pipelines.
• Familiarity with containers and modern deployment environments.
• Ability to read and troubleshoot code in at least one modern programming language.
• Strong written communication and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Fix defects and update dependencies to address security vulnerabilities.
• Plan and execute platform releases in coordination with the release schedule.
• Coordinate versioning and release readiness across repositories, services, and containers.
• Maintain release branches, tags, changelogs, release notes and docs.
• Build and improve CI/CD automation for builds, tests, packaging, publishing and deploying releases.
• Validate releases in representative environments before promotion.
• Track dependencies and component revisions for each release.
• Coordinate with engineers, product owners, quality teams, platform teams and stakeholders on scope and timing.
• Investigate failed builds, deployments and release-validation tests.
• Document issues, upgrade requirements, rollback procedures and operational considerations.
• Establish repeatable release checklists and readiness reporting.
• Identify manual steps and automate them where possible.
• Participate in post-release verification and address issues.

Skills

Git & versioning

CI/CD

Containers

Programming language

Release management

Cross-team coordination

Tools

Kubernetes

Deployment charts

Container registries

Job description

Cubic Corporation is seeking a junior-to-mid-level software engineer to own and improve the release process for a distributed software platform in Ashburn, VA. You will coordinate platform releases, maintain documentation, and build automation to ensure reliable deployments across multiple components.

The role offers growth into end-to-end ownership with collaboration across product, quality, and platform teams, while contributing to secure, well-documented release processes and a strong focus