Staff Image Build & Release Engineer — Remote

Horizon3; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Horizon3Inclusive Team

Growth Opportunities

Innovative Culture

Remote Work

Competitive Compensation

Job summary

Horizon3 is hiring an Expert Engineer on the Image Build & Release team to lead the build pipeline, image signing/scanning, and OTA delivery for NodeZero deployments across customer environments.

You will write code, design architectures, mentor engineers, and own critical decisions that affect security, reliability, and delivery velocity. This is a hands-on staff-level role reporting to Client Platform Engineering Manager.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep specialization in build systems, CI/CD, or release engineering for containerized applications.
• Expert-level knowledge of Docker and container image construction.
• Experience with container image signing and verification and image scanning toolchains.
• Strong track record building and operating CI/CD pipelines at scale.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes and how images are updated in clusters.
• Experience designing OTA or remote update systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and own the CI/CD pipeline that produces NodeZero container images from source to signed, scanned artifact.
• Define image hardening, CVE scanning, and signing strategies.
• Design delivery mechanisms for updates to deployed NodeZero instances, including rollout and rollback.
• Set standards for build reproducibility, artifact versioning, and release gating.
• Mentor engineers and drive architectural decisions across teams.
• Own build and release infrastructure end-to-end; on-call for failures and incidents.

Skills

Build pipeline architecture

Docker

Container image signing

CI/CD pipelines at scale

Kubernetes

OTA / remote update systems

Go / Python / shell scripting

Artifact registries (ECR/GCR/DockerHub

Technical leadership

Architecture documents

Mentoring mid-level engineers

Tools

Cosign

Notary

Trivy

Grype

Snyk

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Tekton

Helm

Kubernetes operator patterns

eBPF

Job description

Horizon3 is hiring an Expert Engineer on the Image Build & Release team to lead the build pipeline, image signing/scanning, and OTA delivery for NodeZero deployments across customer environments.

You will write code, design architectures, mentor engineers, and own critical decisions that affect security, reliability, and delivery velocity. This is a hands-on staff-level role reporting to Client Platform Engineering Manager.