Middle Release Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a Middle Release Engineer who enjoys owning the machinery that turns source code into shipped artifacts. You will join a small, focused engineering group that keeps two mature open-source infrastructure products secure and releasable for a US-based enterprise software vendor.

Project

You'd join a small group keeping two mature open-source infrastructure products secure and releasable for a US-based enterprise software vendor. This is maintenance, not product development: your domain is everything between a merged security fix and a published release package definitions, build pipelines, routine dependency and runtime updates, and the validation suites that prove a build is safe to promote. You'll work alongside a Senior Release Engineer who leads the engagement technically.

Responsibilities

• Own build and packaging across both products: maintain package plans and software definitions, integrate pre-built base packages from the customer's package team, and keep builds green on every supported platform
• Own the CI side: maintain build pipelines and release automation, resolve build failures quickly, separate flaky infrastructure from real regressions, and keep pipeline run times reasonable
• Carry out routine dependency and runtime bumps across the Go and Ruby stacks, module manifests, gem and Bundler updates in the identity service and CLI tooling
• Run release validation, functional test harnesses, unit and integration suites, basic deployment and UI smoke checks and report outcomes the tech lead can sign off on
• Support promotion of builds from unstable to stable channels and help draft the technical portion of release notes
• Act as second pair of hands during release windows and bus-factor cover for the senior engineer
• If the add-on scope is activated: maintain build-time Angular (~v19) and Node dependencies for the web dashboard

Requirements

• 3+ years in release, build, or platform engineering or backend engineering where you genuinely owned builds and pipelines
• Hands-on application packaging: Habitat or Omnibus preferred, or a comparable system (RPM/DEB/FPM, Bazel, Nix, multi-stage Docker) plus real appetite for new packaging tooling
• Practical CI/CD skills like Buildkite, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins, at the level of authoring and debugging pipeline configuration, not just pressing "run"
• Confident Ruby and Bundler skills for maintaining dependencies in an existing codebase
• Working-level Go: reading the code, updating modules, running and interpreting test results ( a full-time Go experience isn't expected)
• Ability to run and triage integration and end-to-end test suites - digging through logs, reproducing failures, telling infrastructure noise from genuine regressions
• Solid Linux fundamentals, shell scripting, Docker, and docker-compose
• Experience using AI coding assistants (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar) day to day
• Self-sufficiency: moving well-defined tasks forward between syncs, with clear written updates and no need for close supervision

Nice to have

• Experience building AI-powered solutions or integrating AI pipelines/APIs
• Basic familiarity with Erlang and rebar3
• Prior exposure to the Chef tooling ecosystem: Habitat, Omnibus, release automation, functional test harnesses
• Maintaining build-time dependencies for Angular and Node applications
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Nginx/OpenResty
• Familiarity with vulnerability scanning tools
• Local environment tooling (Vagrant or similar); database migration tooling such as Sqitch

Work-life Balance

• Possibility to work remotely

Health Care

• Reimbursement of medical expenses
• Online morning exercise

Education

• Compensation for trainings, seminars, conferences
• Free access to the Pluralsight and ACloudGuru knowledge base
• Access to the AltexSoft library with top-notch materials
• A mentor for a probation period
• Engagement in our Mentorship Hub program as a mentor or a mentee to foster professional growth and development

Development

• Horizontally - master new technologies at internal courses
• Vertically - choose your own career path through Competency trees

Recognition Program

• All your activities are marked by points that can be exchanged for gifts to fit any taste.