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Staff Software Engineer, Release Engineering
Location
New Jersey
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
$130K - $190K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Software Engineer, Release Engineering
NBCUniversal
• Own and operate Release Engineering platforms including GitHub Enterprise Cloud, GitHub Actions, SonarQube, and Nexus. • Design, build, and maintain GitHub Actions workflows and pipelines used across multiple engineering teams and organizations. • Lead initiatives to reduce and eliminate use of personal access tokens (PATs) by designing and promoting safer, more scalable authentication patterns. • Partner with Cyber and platform stakeholders to define, document, and enforce approved approaches for authentication and automation. • Provide guidance to application teams on replacing PAT-based integrations with supported alternatives and best practices. • Evaluate and govern artifact management use cases in Nexus, including approving or rejecting requests based on supportability, risk, and long-term maintenance considerations. • Work with the IdP team to ensure identity integration, access controls, and entitlement models are correctly reflected in RelEng-owned tooling and workflows. • Plan and scope work by breaking down initiatives, providing T-shirt size estimates, identifying dependencies, and surfacing risks early. • Track work in Jira, keeping tickets up to date with clear descriptions, acceptance criteria, status, and ownership. • Collaborate with engineering managers and peers to support sprint planning, prioritization, and delivery commitments. • Ensure monitoring and alerting are in place for key systems and workflows and pipelines, with clear ownership and actionable signals. • Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and follow-up improvements related to workflows, integrations, and platform behavior. • Reduce manual and ad hoc work by building standardized automation and selfservice workflows. • Support and enable application teams with adopting GitHub Actions, Nexus, and related tooling through hands-on help, documentation, and clear recommendations. • Serve as a friendly, approachable point of contact for teams with questions or issues related to Release Engineering tooling. • Create and maintain documentation, runbooks, and operational standards for RelEng platforms and workflows. • Provide technical guidance and design input to other engineers on the team.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and professional experience in Computer Science or a related field
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, developer tooling, or related discipline
- Hands-on experience building, operating, and supporting GitHub Actions workflows and pipelines in a production environment
- Experience administering and supporting GitHub Enterprise Cloud or comparable source control and collaboration platforms
- Experience operating and integrating developer tools such as SonarQube, Nexus, or equivalent code quality and artifact repository platforms
- Experience designing automation using APIs and scripting to reduce manual or ad‑hoc operational work
- Experience implementing safer authentication patterns and reducing reliance on personal access tokens (PATs) through scalable alternatives
- Experience working with Cyber partners to translate compliance and risk requirements into platform guardrails and standard practices
- Experience collaborating with Identity or IdP teams on access controls, entitlement models, and SSO‑based integrations
- Experience planning and tracking work using Jira or similar tools, including estimation and delivery tracking
- Experience operating shared platforms with responsibility for monitoring, alerting, incident response, and follow-up improvements
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative, customer-focused approach when supporting engineering teams.
Benefits
- medical insurance
- dental and vision insurance
- 401(k)
- paid leave
- tuition reimbursement
- discounts and perks
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