Staff Build Platform Engineer – Mobile

Owner.com

Staff Build Engineer responsible for CI/CD processes for mobile and web applications. Focusing on iOS build pipelines and ensuring developers can deploy confidently at Owner.com.

Posted 5/21/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $240,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidCloudDockerGradleiOSJenkinsMacOSPythonRubyTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and scale build automation — design, build, and maintain our CI/CD infrastructure (pipelines, runners, artifact storage, signing agents, self-hosted macOS runners); ensure developers across backend, frontend, and mobile can iterate quickly without worrying about builds breaking down
Take charge of our mobile pipelines, with particular focus on iOS: automate versioning, provisioning profile management, keychain handling, automated signing, .ipa generation, TestFlight distribution, and App Store submission via Fastlane or native tooling
Embed quality and traceability into build stages — integrate linting, on-device tests (XCTest, Espresso, Appium), code coverage metrics, and build-state dashboards to reduce flakiness and turnaround time
Apply an SRE mindset to delivery — model build success/failure ratios as SLIs, define error budgets, track pipeline latency (time to green), and build alerts so broken builds are fixed within minutes
Automate for speed and reliability — build caching, parallel job orchestration, staging environment mirroring (via Terraform), and fast rollback workflows so every pipeline is idempotent and traceable.
Champion cross-team collaboration — coach developers on writing reliable Makefile/Gradle/Xcode configurations, secure signing practices, and branching models.
Lead incident response for build failure — serve on rotational pager for CI systems, drive blameless post-mortems, and automate resilient fallback logic (e.g. fallback runners, sourced caching).
Strategize adoption of next-gen tools — evaluate options like GitHub’s macOS runners, Bamboo, Bitrise, or Codemagic to support future iOS scale and cross-platform parity.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years as a Build, CI/CD, or Release Engineer, with strong ownership of automation pipelines in production environments
Proven, recent hands-on ownership of iOS build pipelines: code signing, provisioning, Fastlane or Xcode Cloud automation, TestFlight/App Store delivery — for teams shipping multiple iOS apps per year.
Experience building and operating Android CI/CD pipelines: including Gradle, keystore management, .aab signing, Play Store upload
Deep familiarity with CI/CD orchestration tools (GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins, CircleCI, Bitrise), runners management, and certificates/security models
Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, Ruby, or Fastlane config languages)
Infrastructure-as-code chops (Terraform/CloudFormation), containerization (Docker), and runner provisioning
Solid grasp of distributed build topology, artifact caching, and scaling runners on-demand
Ability to debug build failures across layers—local machine, remote runner, CI agent, or test environment
Excellent written and spoke communication—able to document flows, onboarding, and provide technical training.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
Home‑office stipend, choice of hardware, and support to set up private build infrastructure if needed
Twice‑annual company off‑sites to align strategy and socialize

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Hard Skills & Tools

CI/CDiOS build pipelinescode signingFastlaneGradleTerraformDockerPythonBashRuby

Soft Skills

cross-team collaborationcoachingincident responsetechnical trainingdocumentation