Senior Software Engineer, Release Infra

EngineersOfAI; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to four weeks of fully remote work

Minimum three coordinated days in the office

Flexible working hours

Job summary

EngineersOfAI is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Release Engineering) in Seattle. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining core systems for release and incident management. The position requires collaboration with product and operations teams to ensure safe and reliable releases.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years of experience in backend systems, strong programming skills, and hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines. The hybrid work model includes remote flexibility.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience designing, building, and operating backend or infrastructure systems in production.
• Strong proficiency in backend programming languages with a focus on reliability and performance.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD and release pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the release infrastructure that powers Brex’s deployment pipelines.
• Drive technical strategy and architecture for scalable, reliable, and secure release systems.
• Collaborate with partners to ensure releases are safe and predictable.
• Identify and deliver improvements to reduce risk and cycle time.

Skills

Backend programming languages (e.g., Go, Java, Kotlin, Python)

CI/CD and release pipelines

Infrastructure systems in production

Job description

What you’ll do

As a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Release Engineering) at Brex, you will design, build, and operate the core systems that power Brex’s release, observability, and incident management processes. You will partner closely with product, platform, and operations teams to ensure releases are safe, fast, and reliable, and that our infrastructure scales securely as Brex grows.

Where you’ll work

This role will be based in our Seattle office. We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home. We currently require a minimum of three coordinated days in the office per week on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the release infrastructure that powers Brex’s deployment pipelines and incident workflows
• Drive technical strategy and architecture for release and observability systems, making them more scalable, reliable, and secure
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and operations partners to ensure Brex’s releases are safe, predictable, and low-friction
• Identify and deliver improvements to the end-to-end release process (from code merge to production) to reduce risk and cycle time
• Build and evolve tooling for observability and incident response, enabling fast detection, triage, and resolution
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks in our release and infrastructure stack, including performance, reliability, and security concerns
• Define, instrument, and monitor key metrics for release engineering (e.g., deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR) and use them to guide improvements
• Partner with other infrastructure and product teams to debug complex production issues and drive long-term fixes
• Contribute to and champion best practices in release engineering, reliability, and operational excellence across the organization
• Mentor other engineers on the team, providing technical guidance and code reviews to elevate the overall quality of our infrastructure
• Stay up-to-date on emerging tools and practices in release engineering, observability, and SRE, and bring relevant ideas into Brex’s stack

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience designing, building, and operating backend or infrastructure systems in production
• Strong proficiency in backend programming languages (e.g., Go, Java, Kotlin, or Python) with a focus on reliability and performance
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD and release pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Buildkite, Argo, Spinnaker, Jenkins) including build, test, and deployment automation
• Experience architecting and operating scalable, high-availability di