Senior Build and Release Automation Engineer

Description

About the Role:

As a Senior Build and Release Automation Engineer at Ninja One, you will serve as a technical leader focused on build and release automation strategy, CI/CD platform engineering, and software supply‑chain excellence. You will own the design, scalability, reliability, and security of our build and release ecosystem across our entire portfolio of Unified IT Operations SaaS products.

This role goes beyond maintaining pipelines—you will architect and standardize how software is built, versioned, tested, signed, and released across hundreds of repositories and services. You will drive automation that reduces lead time, eliminates manual release risk, improves traceability, and enables predictable, auditable, and secure software delivery.

You will partner closely with Development, QA, Security, Architecture, and Corporate IT to define and implement golden CI/CD patterns, enforce build governance standards, embed security controls, and optimize delivery performance. As Ninja One continues to scale globally, you will help enable rapid expansion into new regions through resilient, repeatable, and compliant build and release automation systems.

This is a highly visible, high‑impact role responsible for evolving Ninja One’s build platform into a self‑service, secure, and performance‑optimized delivery engine.

We are flexible on remote working from home, if you are located in the USA and reside in one of the following states: CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, KS, MA, MD, ME, NJ, NC, NY, OR, TN, TX, VA, and WA. We have physical offices in Austin, TX and Tampa, FL, if you prefer a hybrid option.

We hire the best software engineers, but experience in our stack can’t hurt:
Ninja One is built on Java, Kotlin, C++, Golang and Postgres; supporting millions of user endpoints and running as a scalable cloud service in AWS. Knowing large‑scale datastore bottlenecks, asynchronous application design and client‑server architecture will help you.

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, versioning automation, and artifact signing across services and repositories.
• Define and roll out standardized build patterns, reusable pipeline templates, and “golden” configurations (CircleCI and related tooling).
• Manage and optimize build infrastructure (executors, runners, caching, containerized environments) to reduce lead time, flakiness, and cost.
• Partner with engineering and architecture teams to diagnose and resolve systemic build failures and dependency issues.
• Embed security and supply‑chain controls into pipelines, including vulnerability scanning, secrets management, policy enforcement, and SBOM generation.
• Implementation of branching, versioning, and release strategies (e.g., feature branches, trunk‑based development, release branches, hotfix flows) to improve predictability and rollback safety.
• Administer artifact management platforms (e.g., JFrog Artifactory), including repository layout, retention, immutability, and provenance metadata.
• Collaborate with security, compliance, and audit teams to meet regulatory and customer requirements for traceability and change governance.
• Create and maintain clear documentation, runbooks, and onboarding materials for CI/CD standards and tooling.
• Mentor engineers and help teams adopt standardized build and release workflows.
• Other duties as needed.

• 8+ years of experience in Dev Ops, build/release engineering, or platform engineering with deep CI/CD automation expertise.
• Proven experience designing, scaling, and operating complex CI/CD systems using tools such as CircleCI, Git Hub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, or Git Lab CI.
• Strong expertise in Git‑based workflows, branching strategies, pull request governance, and protected branch policies.
• Hands‑on experience administering artifact repositories (e.g., JFrog Artifactory) including repository design and metadata management.
• Deep understanding of build systems and dependency management (Maven, Gradle, npm, etc.).
• Experience designing secure software supply‑chain processes including signing, SBOM generation, and vulnerability scanning.
• Strong infrastructure‑as‑code experience (CDK,…