2 months ago
San Diego, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$150k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins to compile, test, package, and publish software.
- Own reproducible builds, release engineering, semantic versioning, dependency management, and promotion across environments.
- Manage artifact repositories and container registries, including retention, access control, and provenance.
- Develop build tooling and automation scripts with Python, Bash, Make, Bazel, or Gradle.
- Optimize build performance through caching, parallelization, and incremental build strategies.
- Integrate security and quality gates such as SAST, SCA, dependency scanning, and SBOM generation.
- Build, patch, harden, and maintain container images and base image pipelines.
- Provision infrastructure and build environments using Terraform.
- Partner with development, security, and compliance teams to provide self-service tooling and audit evidence.
- Maintain documentation, runbooks, and organizational build and release standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
- At least 8 years of experience in build/release engineering, DevOps, or software infrastructure roles.
- Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
- Strong Python and Bash scripting and automation skills.
- Experience with artifact and dependency management tools such as Artifactory or Nexus and with container registries.
- Proficiency with Git-based version control and branching and release workflows.
- Working knowledge of Docker containerization.
- Experience with AWS or Azure.
- U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
- Preferred experience with DevSecOps, SAST/DAST/SCA scanning, software supply chain security, SBOM generation, and Cosign/Sigstore artifact signing.
- Preferred Kubernetes experience with EKS, AKS, or self-managed Kubernetes, including Helm packaging.
- Preferred GitOps experience with ArgoCD or Flux.
- Preferred experience with Conan, C/C++ package management, YOCTO, custom recipes, and remote artifact caching.
- Preferred experience with AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, IL4/IL5 environments, and DoD or federal compliance frameworks including NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, CMMC, FedRAMP, and DFARS.
- An active Secret or Top Secret security clearance is preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan.
- Equity grants for new hires.
- Unlimited PTO and a generous holiday calendar with July and December holiday hiatuses.
- Generous parental leave.
- Lifestyle Spending Account, FSA, DCFSA, and HSA.
- Hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident insurance.
- Basic life/AD&D and short- and long-term disability insurance, with coverage fully paid by Firestorm; additional life insurance is available for purchase.
- Free 24/7 mental health resources plus legal and financial support services.
- Role is based in San Diego, California, with local or relocation candidates welcomed and relocation assistance potentially available.
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About Firestorm
Firestorm builds modular, open-architecture unmanned systems and mission-configurable hardware for defense customers, leveraging additive manufacturing to rapidly tailor platforms for diverse Department of Defense mission areas. Its fielded xCell platform is being developed in multiple variants and supported across mechanical, electrical, software, and manufacturing interfaces. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Diego, the privately held company sells hardware platforms and components to U.S. and allied military programs.