Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Everlaw; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 188,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k) with company match

Hybrid work with remote days

Learning & development

Monthly home internet reimbursement

Catered lunch and snacks

Job summary

Everlaw in Oakland, CA is seeking a senior software engineer to own and optimize the release pipelines powering our agent-ready deployment platform. You will build APIs, services, and automation to enable safe, scalable deployments for humans and AI agents.

This full-time, exempt role is based in our Oakland office with a hybrid schedule: in office M/W/Th with the option to work from home on Tu/Fr. You will lead CI/CD initiatives, improve build performance, and mentor peers, leveraging a strong

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in CI/CD or developer infrastructure.
• Hands-on mastery of CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Harness, Jenkins, GitLab).
• Proficient in production-quality software development with statically-typed languages (e.g., Java).
• Experience leading technical projects and mentoring peers.
• Authorized to work in the United States; Everlaw does not sponsor US work visas at this time.

Responsibilities

• Build agent-ready release infrastructure: design APIs, services, and infrastructure for automated deployments.
• Own release infrastructure: define and scale the infrastructure for builds, pre-production validation, and deployments.
• Automate compliance and safety guardrails: integrate automated policy checks into pipelines.
• Lead technical projects and mentor peers: drive release engineering projects end-to-end and mentor engineers.
• Optimize build performance and signal quality: improve cache, parallelism, and reduce flaky tests in CI/CD.

Skills

CI/CD platforms

Java

Leadership

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

GitHub Actions

Harness

Jenkins

GitLab

Job description

The Role

You'll build, optimize, and harden the pipelines and APIs that power our transition to an agent-ready release platform. In this hands-on, execution-heavy software engineering role, you will be building the release pipelines to allow both humans and AI agents to safely and consistently deploy infrastructure and application code.

This is a full-time, exempt position based in our Oakland, CA office with a hybrid work schedule: in office M/W/Th with the option to work from home on Tu/Fr.

What you'll do

• Build agent-ready release infrastructure: Design and implement APIs, services and infrastructure that replace manual release processes. You’ll also ensure pipeline logs are in structured, traceable formats that humans and AI agents can interpret.
• Own release infrastructure: Define and scale the infrastructure powering our builds, pre-production validation, and production deployments.
• Automate compliance and safety guardrails: Integrate automated policy checks and audit evidence generation directly into pipelines, replacing manual human gates with tested, code-based controls.
• Lead technical projects and mentor peers: Drive complex release engineering projects end-to-end and provide technical mentorship to other engineers on modern CI/CD and IaC practices.
• Optimize build performance and signal quality: Improve build cache hit rates, parallelism, and resource utilization for our monorepo, while systematically eliminating flaky tests in our CI/CD pipelines.

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of software engineering experience including significant time building CI/CD or developer infrastructure in cloud-based systems.
• Deep experience with build systems and CI/CD: Hands-on mastery operating modern CI/CD platforms like GitHub Actions, Harness, Jenkins, or GitLab.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: Proven ability to write production-quality software, not just scripting. Proficiency in Java (or a similar statically-typed language), solid data structure and algorithms.
• Experience leading technical projects: Proven ability to break down complex architectural efforts, collaborate across teams, and mentor other developers.
• You are authorized to work in the United States. Please note that at this time, Everlaw is not sponsoring U.S. employment visas for this role.

Bonus points

• Hands-on experience defining and evolving cloud infrastructure with Terraform, Helm, or similar tools.
• Experience working in regulated environments (e.g., FedRAMP, HIPAA, SOC 2) and navigating their change-management requirements.
• Experience using or integrating AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) into developer workflows.
• Hands-on experience scaling multi-language monorepos.

The Team — Release

The Release Platform team builds and improves the processes, tooling, and architecture that automate Everlaw’s software releases and hotfixes. By making deployments faster, more consistent, and safer, the squad helps engineering deliver improvements to customers with less operational effort and lower release risk.

Total Rewards & Benefits

The expected salary range for this role is $188,000–$251,000. Final salary depends on factors including the candidate's experience and skills, and the base pay range is subject to change. This role is also eligible for equity and the benefits below.

Health & well-being

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
• Membership to Modern Health to support mental health and wellness
• Paid parental leave
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance

Financial rewards

• Competitive equity grants, so you share in Everlaw's long-term growth
• 401(k) plan with company matching of up to 4% of eligible annual compensation

Growth & everyday perks

• 17 paid vacation days, 11 federal holidays, and paid sick leave
• Four "Everlawlidays" (additional paid company-wide days off) per year
• Annual allocation for learning & development and relevant professional membership dues
• Hybrid work with regular work-from-home days and flexibility for life's logistics
• Monthly home internet reimbursement, plus a stipend for your desk setup
• Catered lunch each workday, plus snacks and company-wide events in our offices

About Everlaw

When a lawsuit or investigation happens, teams must comb through vast amounts of electronic evidence — emails, documents, chats, files — to find what matters. That work is not a side task but the case itself, and where most of the time and money in litigation goes. Everlaw is the litigation and investigation management platform changing that, using AI to turn mountains of messy data into the handful of facts that win or lose a case, compressing weeks of work into hours.

We're the kind of place that's ranked #1 on G2 in our category and named a Great Place to Work™ by our own team. So if you want a front row seat to an industry in transformation, career-defining work you'll be proud to tell people about, and real upside at a company in control of its own destiny, we'd love to get to know you.

At Everlaw, you'll shape how AI re-wires the legal industry, at a category-leading business built on a mission to illuminate the truth.

Everlaw is an equal opportunity employer. We pride ourselves on having a diverse workforce and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law. We respect the gender, gender identity and gender expression of our applicants and employees, and we honor requests for pronouns. It is our policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity, including the California Equal Pay Act. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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