Release; Software ) Engineer

Software Engineer

At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company's success. As a Software Engineer within PNC's Technology organization, you will be based in Pittsburgh, PA or Phoenix, AZ, Dallas, TX, Cleveland, OH and Birmingham, AL.

PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position.

The successful candidate should have a technical/coding background and focused on customer service, collaboration, and quality. We are seeking a skilled Release Engineer with a strong focus on Salesforce release management and Dev Sec Ops  CI/CD practices. This role is critical to ensuring high-quality, secure, and efficient delivery of code across multiple Salesforce environments. The ideal candidate will partner closely with development teams to enforce quality gates, manage release cycles, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines.

This position plays a key role in maintaining release stability, platform integrity, and delivery velocity by ensuring robust CI/CD practices and disciplined release management in a complex Salesforce ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities:

• Release Engineering & Management
• Plan, coordinate, and execute releases across all Salesforce organizations and environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Prod).
• Create, manage, and deploy Salesforce metadata packages to ensure consistent and reliable releases.
• Oversee release schedules, dependencies, and environment readiness to meet delivery commitments.
• Lead release preparation meetings and triage deployment & packaging issues.
• Dev Sec Ops  & CI/CD Support
• Support developers with pull request reviews, focusing on CI pipeline quality gates and exception handling.
• Enforce secure coding practices and compliance checks within the CI/CD pipeline.
• Collaborate with teams to resolve pipeline failures and deployment issues.
• Salesforce Environment Management
• Plan and manage Salesforce org utilization, including maintenance, refreshes, and configuration alignment.
• Coordinate code promotion strategies across environments while minimizing risk and downtime.
• Automation & Pipeline Enhancement
• Design, implement, and enhance Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate build, test, and deployment processes to improve efficiency and reliability.
• Integrate quality and security tools into pipelines (e.g., static code analysis, vulnerability scanning).
• Continuous Improvement
• Identify opportunities to optimize release processes, tooling, and governance.
• Drive standardization and automation of release procedures.
• Establish and refine best practices for release engineering and Dev Ops workflows.

Preferred Technical

Skills:

• Jenkins (pipeline development)
• Groovy / Java
• Bash, Power Shell, Python scripting
• Git (branching/merging strategies)
• Bitbucket (Data Center)
• Jira (Data Center)
• Linux fundamentals

Preferred

Soft Skills:

• Self-starter with strong initiative
• Driven to learn and grow technical expertise
• Process improvement mindset
• Effective communicator across technical and non-technical teams
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Excellent time management and prioritization skills

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) is preferred. Proven experience in release engineering or Dev Ops engineering roles is preferred. Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile practices is preferred. Experience managing multi-environment deployments and release coordination is preferred.