Senior Release Engineer

ABOUT ONEBRIEF Onebrief is collaboration and AI-powered workflow software designed specifically for military staffs. By transforming this work, Onebrief makes the staff as a whole superhuman - meaning faster, smarter, and more efficient. We take ownership, seek excellence, and play to win with the seriousness and camaraderie of an Olympic team. Onebrief operates as an all-remote company, though many of our employees work alongside our customers at military commands around the world. Founded in 2019 by a group of experienced planners, today, Onebrief’s team spans veterans from all forces and global organizations, and technologists from leading-edge software companies. We’ve raised $320m+ from top-tier investors, including Battery Ventures, General Catalyst, Sapphire Ventures, Insight Partners, and Human Capital, and today, Onebrief is valued at $2.15B. With this continued growth, Onebrief is able to make an impact where it matters most. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design, maintain, and continuously improve our deployment Golden Path, ensuring the journey from merged code to production is fast, reliable, and secure. - Build and scale CI/CD systems that prioritize deterministic builds, high cache efficiency, rapid feedback cycles, and developer productivity. - Implement and operate automated security controls, including SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and CVE detection, so every release meets our security standards by default. - Manage production environments and deployment workflows using strategies such as canary releases, blue/green deployments, progressive delivery, and automated rollbacks. - Own and evolve our Kubernetes platform, Helm charts, and infrastructure configuration, ensuring consistency, reliability, and repeatability across environments. - Partner closely with engineering teams to eliminate delivery bottlenecks, establish reusable platform patterns, and enable squads to ship independently with confidence. - Identify opportunities to reduce operational toil, improve deployment safety, and increase platform resilience through automation and self-service tooling. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR EXPERIENCE - 4+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Release Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or related software engineering roles. - Demonstrated experience operating and scaling production systems with a strong focus on reliability, security, and operational excellence. - Proven success building, maintaining, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines in modern cloud-native environments. TECHNICAL EXPERTISE - Deep experience with Kubernetes and Helm in production environments. - Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code principles and configuration management practices. - Experience with modern deployment and GitOps tooling such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD, or similar platforms. - Hands-on experience integrating security tooling into delivery pipelines, including vulnerability, dependency, and application security scanning. - Strong knowledge of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, containers, and distributed systems. COLLABORATION & COMMUNICATION - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a remote-first environment. - Ability to translate complex infrastructure and platform requirements into simple, scalable solutions for engineering teams. - Collaborative, low-ego approach with a strong sense of ownership and accountability. - Comfortable influencing engineering practices across teams through partnership, mentorship, and technical leadership. NICE TO HAVE - Experience operating multi-cluster Kubernetes environments. - Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or similar tools. - Familiarity with platform engineering concepts, internal developer platforms, and self-service infrastructure. - Experience supporting rapidly growing engineering organizations and improving developer productivity at scale. N