Senior Software Engineer - Release Infrastructure

Celonis•Los Angeles, CA

14d

About The Position

We're Celonis, the global leader in Process Intelligence technology and one of the world's fastest-growing SaaS firms. We believe there is a massive opportunity to unlock productivity by placing AI, data and intelligence at the core of business processes - and for that, we need your help. Care to join us? The Team: The Application Delivery team, part of the Reliability & Developer Experiences (RDE) org at Celonis, builds the platforms, pipelines, and tools that power software delivery across the company. Our mission is to empower engineering teams to ship code with speed and confidence, while maintaining a high bar for availability, security, and quality. We partner closely with infrastructure, SRE, testing, and application teams to create a seamless, scalable, and resilient developer experience. The Role: Why This Role Matters: As a Senior Software Engineer (Release Infrastructure), you’ll take ownership of core systems that impact hundreds of engineers. You'll help application teams to improve time to production, reduce developer friction, and ensure reliability at scale. This is a high-impact role with visibility across engineering and leadership. You’ll help define the direction of our internal platform and play a key role in shaping how features are launched at Celonis. The Work You’ll Do: Accelerate delivery : Lead efforts to reduce Time to Prod across all services by improving automation and tooling. Build for impact : Design and implement developer-facing infrastructure that reduces friction and improves software quality across Celonis’s engineering teams. Shape the roadmap : Partner with senior engineering leadership to define the vision and roadmap for Celonis’ internal developer platform. Drive adoption : Lead initiatives to expand GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and self-service patterns across engineering teams. Feature flags approach : Help scale feature flag-based deployment strategies to enable controlled, reliable, progressive rollouts. Scale reliability : Enhance observability, incident response, and deployment safety across Celonis’s software stack. Own what you build : Take ownership of critical systems—from concept to rollout to support—in partnership with SRE, Platform Infrastructure, and Product teams.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in backend, DevOps, and/or platform engineering roles.
Experience as a full stack engineer, working end to end
Strong programming skills in at least one modern language (e.g. Python, Go, Java).
Solid understanding of modern cloud-native systems (especially containers and Kubernetes).
Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and monitoring.
Proven ability to lead projects or own critical systems in production.
Strong communication and collaboration skills
This position is not available now or in the future for immigration visa sponsorship

Nice To Haves

Experience with any of the following will help you ramp up quickly:
Experience in building highly available, scalable, distributed systems in a Microservices based architecture
GitOps and deployment tools (ArgoCD, Kargo, Flux, Helm, Kustomize)
IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi)
Observability platforms (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus)
Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Developer platform or internal tooling experience in a fast-paced environment
Strong understanding of SDLC practices
Hands-on experience with IasC, GitOps, CI/CD
Working knowledge of Containerization, network protocols, encryption, and security.
Experience operating Kubernetes clusters in production across multiple infrastructures.

Responsibilities

Lead efforts to reduce Time to Prod across all services by improving automation and tooling.
Design and implement developer-facing infrastructure that reduces friction and improves software quality across Celonis’s engineering teams.
Partner with senior engineering leadership to define the vision and roadmap for Celonis’ internal developer platform.
Lead initiatives to expand GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and self-service patterns across engineering teams.
Help scale feature flag-based deployment strategies to enable controlled, reliable, progressive rollouts.
Enhance observability, incident response, and deployment safety across Celonis’s software stack.
Take ownership of critical systems—from concept to rollout to support—in partnership with SRE, Platform Infrastructure, and Product teams.