Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Skill connects professional, IT, engineering, financial, and administrative talent with major brands. The company is seeking a Platform / CI Build Engineer to support GitHub Enterprise, CI infrastructure and agents, build reliability, and developer experience across core monorepos. The role focuses on diagnosing build issues, managing CI capacity, resolving operational requests, and coordinating across engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Hands-on CI & Build Support: Provide direct support to mobile, backend, and data engineers to diagnose and resolve complex build and infrastructure issues
- CI Infrastructure Management: Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize CI agents, maintaining health, capacity, stability, and resolving operational failures
- Build Investigation & Reliability: Investigate CI failures, build flakiness, and performance bottlenecks, driving incidents through to root-cause resolution
- Developer Enablement: Respond to urgent build requests to keep engineering teams moving quickly
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Coordinate across core platform and developer experience teams, escalating critical decisions and incidents efficiently when needed
- Documentation & Operations: Enhance existing operational runbooks and create new documentation to improve team response times and infrastructure reliability
Skills
- Deep platform and developer infrastructure experience
- Broad understanding of scalable CI/CD pipelines and build infrastructure
- Hands-on experience and familiarity with Bazel
- Service-minded approach to first-line developer support
- High attention to detail with proactive problem-solving abilities
- Operational flexibility and relentless follow-through on complex issues
- Broad understanding of developer workflows, CI systems, build tools (Bazel), and agent infrastructure, coupled with the ability to dive deep technically when systems break
- Hands-on experience with large-scale platform infrastructure; comfortable operating and troubleshooting systems in production, not just designing them
- Comfortable navigating ambiguous issues without clear ownership by gathering context, identifying key stakeholders, executing solutions, and maintaining transparent communication
- Self-driven, pragmatic candidates who enjoy improving developer productivity, enabling others, and operating in distributed, cross-timezone environments
Benefits
- This role is remote, with the option for candidates located in the NYC Metro area to go onsite 1 day a week.
- Health benefit contributions
- Retirement plans with match
- Flexible spending accounts
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