Remote Staff Build & Release Engineer, CI/CD & OTA

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 230,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive Team

Growth Opportunities

Innovative Culture

Remote Work

Competitive Compensation

Health, vision & dental care for you &

Flexible vacation policy

Generous parental leave

Job summary

Horizon3 is seeking an Expert Engineer for the Image Build & Release team to own how NodeZero is built and delivered to customer environments. You will set technical direction for the build pipeline, signing and OTA delivery, shaping automation, reliability, and delivery velocity across thousands of deployments.

You will write code, create architecture designs, and mentor engineers while reporting to the Client Platform Engineering Manager and collaborating with OTA Services.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience in build/release engineering or CI/CD for containerized apps.
• Expert-level Docker/container image construction, multi-stage builds, base image selection, layer optimization and hardening.
• Experience with container image signing and verification (Cosign, Notary, or equivalent) and image scanning toolchains (Trivy, Grype, Snyk).
• Strong track record building and operating CI/CD pipelines at scale (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Tekton).
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes and image versioning in running clusters.
• Experience designing and operating OTA/remote update systems with rollout strategies and rollback.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or shell scripting for pipeline tooling.
• Experience with artifact registries (ECR, GCR, Docker Hub, Harbor).

Responsibilities

• Design and own the CI/CD pipeline for NodeZero container images from source to signed, scanned artifacts.
• Define image hardening, CVE scanning, and signing strategies meeting security/compliance before shipment.
• Design delivery mechanism for updates with rollout, rollback, and version pinning.
• Set build reproducibility and release gating standards for the Client Platform team.
• Mentor mid-level engineers through reviews and architecture discussions.
• Own end-to-end build and release infrastructure, including on-call for failures and incidents.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

Go

Python

Shell scripting

Image signing

Artifact registries

Tools

Cosign

Notary

Trivy

Grype

Snyk

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Tekton

ECR

GCR

Docker Hub

Harbor

Job description

Horizon3 is seeking an Expert Engineer for the Image Build & Release team to own how NodeZero is built and delivered to customer environments. You will set technical direction for the build pipeline, signing and OTA delivery, shaping automation, reliability, and delivery velocity across thousands of deployments.

You will write code, create architecture designs, and mentor engineers while reporting to the Client Platform Engineering Manager and collaborating with OTA Services.