Release Engineer

At PayIt, we have a big vision to simplify the way that everyday citizens interact with government agencies. We are rapidly expanding and looking for engineers who can help us build a world-class Gov-Tech platform. 
 
As a well-funded growth stage startup, we recently raised over $100M+ from Insight Partners to continue to build on our best-in-class platform. We have a track record of success being named one of the Nation's Top Ten Government Tech Startups of the Year as well as one of Kansas City's Top Ten Startups to Watch. We are actively looking for people who are excited about our mission, those who are excited about helping our journey to make things like sitting at the DMV, getting a Driver’s License renewed, or paying a court ticket mobile and quick. 
 
PayIt’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Team is our critical link between applications and the infrastructure platform, building infrastructure as code and partnering with our application development teams to make their services more observable, scalable and reliable. If “it takes a village”, the Release Engineer relentlessly ensures all of the components of our software supply chain work well together. 
 
What You’ll Be Doing:
  • Assist with configuration and management of build infrastructure including source control, CI/CD (Jenkins, et al), Kubernetes
  • Develop tools to assist in build automation and ensures, where possible, that an automated approach is taken to all aspects of product builds and management.
  • Evaluate, identify, deploy and troubleshoot open source tools and technologies in support of software deployment and management
  • Cooperate with the development team to integrate new deployment processes and strategies to meet feature requirements
  • Provides guidance, coaching, and training on configuration and release management best practices
  • Provides technical guidance and support to product development teams with tool integration and workflows.
  • Recommends new technologies and platforms that will increase efficiency and quality of product builds

What You’ll Need to Have:
  • Experience working with continuous integration (CI) build systems and/or release crafting systems in cloud-native software development environments
  • Experience working in agile
  • Able to identify all of the source, tools, environment, and other components that make up a particular release
  • Able to integrate source, third party components, data, and deployment externals of a software system in order to guarantee operational stability
  • Able to provide a stable framework for development, deployment, audit, and accountability for software components
  • Experience with source control (Git)
  • Experience in scripting languages (Python, Groovy, JavaScript, Bash, etc.)
 
Bonus Points For:
  • Kubernetes experience is a big plus.
  • CKA, CKAD is even bigger
  • Experience securing the software supply chain:
    • Commit signing
    • Container scanning / signing
    • Reproducible builds
 
What We Care About:
 We’re about openness, integrity, accessibility and great communication - so these should be qualities that you have too. 

The usability of our products, open exchange of ideas with our teams and the commitment to the cities, counties, and states we serve are values we won’t budge on, and so we’ll want you to exemplify these too.

Note: U.S. Citizens and all those authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to provide sponsorship at this time. 
 
To all recruitment agencies: PayIt does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our career’s alias or PayIt employees. PayIt is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
 
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