Senior Software Release Engineer

General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc•Pittsfield, MA

2d•$126,862 - $137,269•Remote

About The Position

We are building a disciplined, automated way to release software across multiple teams. This role will turn releases from a collection of manual steps into a reliable engineering capability: tested, traceable, repeatable, and continuously improving. You will work closely with engineers to make quality part of the delivery process itself. The goal is not gatekeeping. It helps teams move quickly because releases are well-tested, predictable, and easy to understand. In a defense environment, release confidence matters. Knowing what was deployed, how it was validated, and how to recover from an issue is essential to secure and dependable software delivery.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field, plus 8 years of relevant experience.
Experience building, operating, or improving CI/CD pipelines for production software.
Experience with release engineering practices, including versioning, artifact management, environment promotion, release approvals, and rollback planning.
Experience implementing automated testing in CI/CD pipelines, including unit, integration, regression, and security testing as appropriate.
Experience with source control and CI/CD platforms such as Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
Strong understanding of software quality practices and the ability to translate testing expectations into practical pipeline controls.
Strong documentation and cross-functional communication skills.
U.S. citizenship required.
Ability to obtain a Department of Defense Secret security clearance is required at time of hire.
Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting AI-enabled or data-intensive software systems.
Experience in defense, aerospace, or another regulated environment.
Familiarity with infrastructure as code, including Terraform or CloudFormation.
Experience with containerized delivery, container registries, and orchestration platforms.
Experience introducing or maturing release engineering and software quality practices across multiple engineering teams.
You can take an inconsistent release process and turn it into a dependable, automated system.
You know how to increase testing rigor while keeping engineering teams productive.
You build pipelines that provide useful feedback, not just more steps.
You can answer what version is deployed, what changed, and what testing it passed.
You treat rollback as a planned capability, not an emergency improvisation.

Responsibilities

Design and build the release process for our software products, establishing how versions are created, validated, promoted, and deployed across development, staging, and production environments.
Develop and improve CI/CD workflows that make releases repeatable, observable, and low-risk, defining versioning conventions, release gates, approval paths, artifact handling, and deployment promotion practices.
Partner with software and AI engineers to build automated testing into delivery pipelines, ensuring unit, integration, regression, security, and other appropriate checks run consistently before software advances to the next environment.
Help establish practical standards for test coverage, test reliability, and release readiness, driving adoption of quality gates that catch issues early without creating unnecessary delivery friction.
Maintain clear visibility into what version is deployed in each environment, what changed between releases, and which validations were completed, creating release records that support troubleshooting, auditability, and informed decision-making.
Build and validate release and rollback procedures so teams can deploy confidently and recover quickly when a release does not perform as expected.