Lead design and operation of build and release automation and CI/CD platform engineering. Standardize pipelines artifact management signing SBOM generation and supply-chain controls. Optimize build infrastructure enforce governance collaborate with security/compliance and mentor teams to improve delivery performance and traceability.

Description
About the Role
As a Senior Build and Release Automation Engineer at NinjaOne 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 NinjaOne 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 NinjaOne's build platform into a self-service secure and performance-optimized delivery engine.
Location - 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: NinjaOne 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.
What You'll be Doing

• 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.

About You

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps 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 GitHub Actions Bitbucket Pipelines Jenkins or GitLab 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 Terraform Ansible Chef etc.) applied to CI/CD infrastructure.
• Experience with containerized build environments (Docker) and cloud platforms (AWS or equivalent).
• Proficiency in scripting or programming (Python Bash Go etc.) to build automation tooling.
• Experience implementing release governance audit traceability and change management processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and rolling out standardized "golden pipeline" templates across large engineering organizations.
• Background in DevSecOps or software supply-chain security (attestations signing frameworks policy-as-code such as OPA/Conftest).
• Experience improving DORA metrics and delivery performance at scale.
• Prior experience leading CI/CD modernization platform migrations or tooling consolidation initiatives.
• Experience operating in high-growth SaaS or multi-region cloud environments.
• Familiarity with progressive delivery patterns such as blue/green or canary releases.

About Us
NinjaOne unifies IT to simplify work for more than 35000 customers in 140+ countries. The NinjaOne Unified IT Operations Platform delivers endpoint management autonomous patching backup and remote access in a single console to improve efficiency increase resilience and reduce spend. By automating IT and managing all endpoints organizations give employees a great technology experience at work. NinjaOne is obsessed with customer success and has retained a 98% customer satisfaction score for more than 5 years.
What You'll Love
We are a collaborative kind and curious community.
We honor your flexibility needs with full-time work that is hybrid remote.
We have you covered with our comprehensive benefits package which includes medical dental and vision insurance.
We help you prepare for your financial future with our 401(k) plan.
We prioritize your work-life balance with our unlimited PTO.
We reward your work with opportunity for growth and advancement.
Additional Information
This position is NOT eligible for Visa sponsorship. Due to federal government security requirements associated with our FedRAMP-authorized environment candidates must be U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.
*Due to operational policies NinjaOne is unable to hire for this role within the city limits of Chicago. We will consider all qualified candidates who reside outside of the city proper or are willing to self-relocate.
Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors including but not limited to location market demands experience job-related knowledge and skills. The benefits available for this position include medical dental vision 401(k) plan life insurance coverage and PTO. For roles based in California Colorado Maryland New Jersey or Washington the base salary hiring range for this position is $140000 to $190000 per year.
For roles based in New York the base salary hiring range for this position is $140000 to $190000 per year.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability genetic information marital status veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. We are committed to providing an inclusive and diverse work environment.
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