Senior Software Build & Release Engineer
Owns end-to-end build and release automation for flight and ground software on Voyager's lunar lander program: designing GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Bazel-based builds, branching/versioning strategy, test integration, and on-prem Linux infrastructure. Onsite in Pittsburgh, PA; requires Python, Docker, and 5+ years in mission-critical DevOps/release engineering.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of DevOps, build, or release engineering experience supporting robotics, spacecraft, embedded, or other mission-critical systems
- Hands-on ownership of GitLab CI/CD, including pipelines, runners, package registry, and releases
- Strong Python skills for pipeline automation, release tooling, scripting, and pytest-based test frameworks
- Experience with Bazel, particularly for multi-language (C++/Python) builds, remote caching, or migrating from Make/CMake
- Experience with Docker and with Make/CMake build systems
- Track record designing or significantly shaping branching and release strategies (GitFlow, release branches, semantic versioning, promotion gates)
- Solid Linux administration experience, including deploying and maintaining self-hosted engineering services
- Comfort as the primary or sole owner of infrastructure, responsible for architecture and hands-on implementation
- Must be a U.S. person as defined by ITAR
Nice to have
- Working proficiency in C++, particularly around build, test, and packaging
- Experience running simulation or compute workloads on HPC clusters (Slurm)
- Experience with container registries and object storage (Harbor, MinIO)
- Prior work in ITAR/CUI-controlled environments
- Informal technical leadership experience, such as mentoring engineers or driving cross-team adoption of tooling and process
Full description
Voyager is an innovative space, defense, and national security technology company committed to advancing and delivering transformative, mission-critical solutions. We tackle the most complex challenges to unlock new frontiers for human progress, fortify national security, and protect critical assets to lead in the race for technological and operational superiority from ground to space.
Forge the Future: Join Voyager Technologies
The future belongs to those who build it. At Voyager Technologies, we’re building technologies that protect lives, expand frontiers and prepare us for what’s next. And we’re doing that with people who are wired to solve, build, adapt and lead. These roles are not for the faint of heart.
You’ll help lay the foundation for humanity's future. Join a culture where innovation thrives, curiosity is rewarded, and impact is real. We’re a company of doers, thinkers and builders, united by purpose and grounded in reality.
If you want to put your skills to work where the stakes are real and the mission is bigger than any one person, forge the future with Voyager.
The Senior Software Build & Release Engineer for Voyager Lunar Systems owns the automation of software builds, versioning, deployment, and delivery for our lunar lander program.
The position reports to the Software & Controls Manager and is part of the Software & Controls Department based in Pittsburgh, PA. This role is onsite based in Pittsburgh, PA.
In this role, the essential functions are:
- Own release engineering end to end for flight and ground software, from pipeline architecture through final software package generation.
- Design and evolve the branching and release strategy. This includes a GitFlow-based model with release branches, automated semantic versioning, and promotion gates that define what qualifies as an alpha build, release candidate, or release.
- Build and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines that compile, test, version, publish, and deploy software. You'll triage and resolve infrastructure-related failures and regressions.
- Integrate automated and manual test campaigns into the release process so every build has a clear, auditable test record.
- Deploy and operate on-premises infrastructure for critical engineering services, including GitLab and GitLab Runners, Slurm HPC clusters, Jira, Confluence, Harbor, and MinIO.
- Own Linux-based spacecraft flat-sat platforms. You'll work with test engineers to build Python tooling and custom Docker containers for automated deployment and testing.
- for build, test, and release practices across software teams.