Build & Release Engineer (Western Canada)

League Inc.

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About The Position

League is seeking a Build & Release Engineer to join their team. This role is at the intersection of CI/CD infrastructure, release automation, and developer experience, with a strong emphasis on leveraging AI to scale engineering systems and workflows. The engineer will own and evolve the systems that power how software is built, tested, and released across League’s platform, spanning web, mobile (iOS/Android), and backend services. They will design reliable, scalable, and AI-augmented build and release pipelines that enable teams to ship faster with confidence. This role combines hands-on engineering, operational excellence, and AI-driven innovation to improve delivery velocity, reliability, and developer productivity across the organization.

Requirements

3+ years experience in build/release engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering.
Strong experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins).
Proficiency with cloud platforms (GCP preferred, AWS/Azure acceptable).
Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
Strong programming skills (e.g., Go, Python, Java, or similar).
Demonstrated experience using AI tools in a practical, responsible way.
Curiosity and openness to experimenting with new technologies.
Ability to balance efficiency with quality and sound judgment.

Responsibilities

Design, maintain, and evolve automated build, packaging, and release workflows across web, backend, and mobile platforms.
Own the end-to-end release lifecycle, including versioning, promotion, rollback, and hotfix strategies.
Ensure high reliability and uptime of CI/CD systems through monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
Support engineering teams in landing critical releases and resolving build or deployment issues.
Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using modern tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI, self-hosted runners).
Improve build performance, cost efficiency, and execution times across pipelines.
Manage and evolve containerized build environments (Docker) and Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
Implement infrastructure-as-code practices (e.g., Terraform) for reproducible build environments.
Design and implement AI-assisted workflows to automate release validation, failure triage, and incident analysis, optimize pipeline performance, and identify bottlenecks.
Generate and maintain build scripts, configs, and test scaffolding.
Build AI-powered tooling (agents, bots, or copilots) to support release orchestration, developer self-service workflows, and CI/CD diagnostics and recommendations.
Integrate AI into developer workflows to reduce manual effort and improve productivity.
Continuously evaluate and adopt new AI tools and patterns to evolve League’s delivery capabilities.
Build and maintain internal tools, dashboards, and CLI utilities to improve developer workflows.
Enhance observability of build and release systems (logs, metrics, alerts).
Create and maintain documentation and self-service tooling for engineering teams.
Partner with developers to understand friction points and improve release experience at scale.
Implement and maintain secure build and release practices, including certificate management and secrets management.
Ensure compliance with platform and security standards.
Partner with Security and Platform teams to ensure safe and compliant releases.
Improve reliability through incident management, postmortems, and continuous improvement loops.
Compliance with Information Security Policies.
Compliance with League’s secure coding practice.
Responsibility and accountability for executing League's policies and procedures.
Notification of HR, Legal, Compliance & Security of any incidents, breaches or policy violations.