Senior Software Engineer, Platform

The Role

You'll build, optimize, and harden the pipelines and APIs that power our transition to an agent-ready release platform. In this hands-on, execution-heavy software engineering role, you will be building the release pipelines to allow both humans and AI agents to safely and consistently deploy infrastructure and application code.

This is a full-time, exempt position based in our Oakland, CA office with a hybrid work schedule: in office M/W/Th with the option to work from home on Tu/Fr.

What you'll do

• Build agent-ready release infrastructure: Design and implement APIs, services and infrastructure that replace manual release processes. You'll also ensure pipeline logs are in structured, traceable formats that humans and AI agents can interpret.
• Own release infrastructure: Define and scale the infrastructure powering our builds, pre-production validation, and production deployments.
• Automate compliance and safety guardrails: Integrate automated policy checks and audit evidence generation directly into pipelines, replacing manual human gates with tested, code-based controls.
• Lead technical projects and mentor peers: Drive complex release engineering projects end-to-end and provide technical mentorship to other engineers on modern CI/CD and IaC practices.
• Optimize build performance and signal quality: Improve build cache hit rates, parallelism, and resource utilization for our monorepo, while systematically eliminating flaky tests in our CI/CD pipelines.

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of software engineering experience including significant time building CI/CD or developer infrastructure in cloud-based systems.
• Deep experience with build systems and CI/CD: Hands-on mastery operating modern CI/CD platforms like GitHub Actions, Harness, Jenkins, or GitLab.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: Proven ability to write production-quality software, not just scripting. Proficiency in Java (or a similar statically-typed language), solid data structure and algorithms.
• Experience leading technical projects: Proven ability to break down complex architectural efforts, collaborate across teams, and mentor other developers.
• You are authorized to work in the United States. Please note that at this time, Everlaw is not sponsoring U.S. employment visas for this role.

Bonus points

• Hands-on experience defining and evolving cloud infrastructure with Terraform, Helm, or similar tools.
• Experience working in regulated environments (e.g., FedRAMP, HIPAA, SOC 2) and navigating their change-management requirements.
• Experience using or integrating AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) into developer workflows.
• Hands-on experience scaling multi-language monorepos.

Additional information

Think you're missing some of the skills and are hesitant to apply? We do not believe in the 'perfect' candidate and encourage you to apply if you feel you can bring value to our team. We often revisit candidates who may have applied for a different role if something comes up that's a better fit.

The Team - Release

The Release Platform team builds and improves the processes, tooling, and architecture that automate Everlaw's software releases and hotfixes. By making deployments faster, more consistent, and safer, the squad helps engineering deliver improvements to customers with less operational effort and lower release risk.

Total Rewards & Benefits

• The expected salary range for this role is $188,000-$251,000.
• Final salary depends on factors including the candidate's experience and skills, and the base pay range is subject to change.
• This role is also eligible for equity and the benefits below.

Health & well-being

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
• Membership to Modern Health to support mental health and wellness
• Paid parental leave
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance

Financial rewards

• Competitive equity grants, so you share in Everlaw's long-term growth
• 401(k) plan with company matching of up to 4% of eligible annual compensation

Growth & everyday perks

• 17 paid vacation days, 11 federal holidays, and paid sick leave
• Four "Everlawlidays" (additional paid company-wide days off) per year
• Annual allocation for learning & development and relevant professional membership dues
• Hybrid work with regular work-from-home days and flexibility for life's logistics
• Monthly home internet reimbursement, plus a stipend for your desk setup
• Catered lunch each workday, plus snacks and company-wide events in our offices