Senior Software Release Engineer

General Dynamics Mission Systems is a leader in providing high technology solutions, products, and services for defense and scientific operations. The Senior Software Release Engineer will design and implement release processes for software products, ensuring automation and quality throughout the delivery pipeline.

Responsibilities:

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

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
• 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