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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Engineer - Release Engineering - **Company:** Everlaw, Inc. - **Location:** Oakland, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $188,000.0 - $251,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Bash Shell, Bioinformatics, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Data Structures, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), DevOps, Distributed Systems, Gradle, Python (Programming Language), Apache Maven, Open Source Technology, Software Engineering, Policy as Code, GitHub Copilot, Delivery Pipeline, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Build Tools, Codebase, Terraform - **Published:** September 21, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.jofdav.com/jobs/59810090-senior-software-engineer-release-engineering ## About the Role * You have 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on Release, DevOps, or Platform Engineering in cloud-based systems. * You have strong proficiency in Java or a similar statically-typed language, and comfort scripting in Python and/or Bash. * You have deep, hands-on experience with build tools such as Gradle, Bazel, or Maven at scale within large codebases. * You have experience managing cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) using Terraform or similar IaC tools, alongside experience operating modern CI/CD platforms. * You have strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, system design, and distributed systems, with a track record of automating away operational toil. * You are authorized to work in the United States. Please note that at this time, Everlaw is not sponsoring U.S. employment visas for this role. Bonus points * Experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and policy-as-code approaches. * Experience working in regulated environments (e.g., FedRAMP, HIPAA, SOC 2) and familiarity with their change-management and audit requirements. * Experience using AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) and interest in integrating them into developer workflows and CI/CD tooling. * Experience with Bazel and/or multi-language monorepos. * Contributions to open-source CI/CD, release, or IaC tooling, or public speaking/writing on developer productivity or release engineering. Think you're missing some of the skills and are hesitant to apply? We do not believe in the 'perfect' candidate and encourage you to apply if you feel you can bring value to our team. We often revisit candidates who may have applied for a different role if something comes up that's a better fit. ## Description You'll build, optimize, and harden the pipelines and APIs that power our transition to an agent-ready release platform. In this hands-on, execution-heavy software engineering role, you will be building the release pipelines to allow both humans and AI agents to safely and consistently deploy infrastructure and application code., * Dive deep into Gradle/Bazel configurations and our Java build graph to improve cache hit rates, parallelism, and resource utilization for our monorepo. * Systematically identify and eliminate flaky tests and unstable infrastructure in our CI pipelines to ensure green builds provide highly trustworthy signals. * Build automations that generate FedRAMP and other audit artifacts from our pipelines, reducing manual toil while improving our compliance posture. * Shift logs and build outputs toward structured, traceable formats and implement clear, idempotent APIs to lay the groundwork for safe orchestration by future automation. * Use tools like Terraform and Helm to define and evolve the infrastructure that powers our builds and deployments, managing configuration drift, health, and scaling across target environments. * Drive complex release engineering projects end-to-end-including scoping, technical design, execution, rollout, and post-launch improvements-while providing technical mentorship to peers., At Everlaw, you'll shape how AI re-wires the legal industry, at a category-leading business built on a mission to illuminate the truth. Everlaw is an equal opportunity employer. We pride ourselves on having a diverse workforce and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law. We respect the gender, gender identity and gender expression of our applicants and employees, and we honor requests for pronouns. It is our policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity, including the California Equal Pay Act. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We collect and process the personal information you provided along with your job application in accordance with our Applicants Privacy Notice and Notice at Collection. When preparing to engage with Everlaw as a candidate, you may use AI tools for research, polishing application materials, and interview prep. However, any assessments (unless explicitly stated), remote interviews or live interviews must be completed independently without AI support. By submitting your application, you agree to adhere to these rules. 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