Software Engineer, Build and Release

NVIDIA

Software Engineer responsible for CI/CD systems and build releases in NVIDIA’s OpenShell team. Enhance systems for autonomous AI agents using cutting-edge technologies and platforms.

Posted 5/8/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $184,000 - $287,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DockerKubernetesLinuxMacOSPythonRustShell Scripting

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and evolve OpenShell’s CI/CD system across GitHub Actions, self-hosted Linux amd64/arm64 runners, GPU runners, macOS runners, reusable workflows, gated e2e jobs, release canaries, and developer-facing branch checks.
Build and harden multi-architecture release pipelines for GHCR images, Helm OCI charts, Linux and macOS CLI binaries, gateway and sandbox binaries, Python wheels, Debian packages, RPM packages, Homebrew formula generation, and install scripts.
Improve release reliability for both rolling dev builds and tagged public releases, including version derivation, automatic tagging, checksums, artifact pruning, provenance, artifact attestations, and downstream package publishing.
Drive reproducible and performant builds using mise, uv, Cargo, maturin, BuildKit, Docker/Podman, sccache, native amd64/arm64 runners, Zig, osxcross, protobuf codegen, and pinned toolchains.
Own the quality gates that decide whether code is safe to merge or ship, including Rust/Python checks, license headers, markdown/docs validation, e2e label gates, Docker/Podman e2e, Kubernetes/Helm e2e, GPU e2e, and release canary coverage.
Debug difficult build and release failures across containers, registries, runners, package managers, cross-compilation toolchains, kernel/VM runtime artifacts, and CI cache behavior.
Partner with platform engineers to make OpenShell easier to install and operate across Linux, macOS, Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, GPU environments, and experimental VM/libkrun-based runtimes.
Continuously improve CI observability, failure diagnostics, workflow runtime, cache hit rates, artifact traceability, and the developer experience for contributors and maintainers.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
8+ years of meaningful engineering experience, with strong ownership of build, release, CI/CD, developer infrastructure, or systems tooling.
Deep experience with GitHub Actions or similar CI systems, including reusable workflows, self-hosted runners, permissions, secrets, workflow gates, matrix builds, artifact handling, and failure diagnosis.
Strong Linux systems and shell scripting skills, with the ability to debug build failures at the boundary between OS packages, containers, compilers, linkers, filesystems, and runtime environments.
Experience shipping multi-platform artifacts, including container images, Linux packages, macOS artifacts, checksums, installer scripts, and public release assets.
Working knowledge of Rust and Python build ecosystems, including Cargo, cross-compilation, Python wheels, uv, maturin, protobuf generation, and native dependency management.
Experience with Docker, BuildKit/buildx, container registries, OCI images, Helm charts, Kubernetes deployment/testing flows, and Docker/Podman compatibility concerns.
Strong understanding of supply-chain hardening: pinned actions, dependency lockfiles, release provenance, artifact checksums, SBOMs, attestations, least-privilege CI permissions, and secret hygiene.
Ability to reason about release risk, keep pipelines reliable under active development, and communicate clearly when a release should stop, continue, or be rolled back.

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Hard Skills & Tools

CI/CDGitHub ActionsLinuxshell scriptingRustPythonDockerKubernetesBuildKitcross-compilation

Soft Skills

ownershipdebuggingcommunicationreasoningfailure diagnosiscollaborationproblem-solvingobservabilityreliabilitydeveloper experience

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering