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Business Unit: Cubic Defense Company Details: We are seeking a junior-to-mid-level software engineer to own and improve the release process for a distributed software platform, coordinating its releases with the broader product release cycle. The platform comprises a web-based control plane, runtime services, platform adapters, deployment charts, supporting components, and shared contract libraries. This engineer will work across those components to assemble, validate, document, and deliver reliable releases. This role is well suited to an engineer who enjoys automation, systems integration, and making complex release processes predictable. The successful candidate will initially execute releases with support from senior engineers and progressively assume end-to-end ownership. Job Details: Key
Responsibilities Fix software defects and update dependencies to address security vulnerabilities. Plan and execute platform releases in coordination with the broader product release schedule. Coordinate versioning and release readiness across repositories, services, deployment charts, container images, and supporting components. Maintain release branches, tags, changelogs, release notes, and supporting documentation. Build and improve CI/CD automation for compiling, testing, packaging, publishing, and deploying releases. Validate releases in representative environments before promotion. Verify compatibility among control-plane services, runtime components, platform adapters, shared contracts, and supported integrations. Track dependencies and component revisions included in each release. Coordinate with engineers, product owners, quality teams, platform teams, and other stakeholders on release scope and timing. Investigate failed builds, deployments, and release-validation tests. Document known issues, upgrade
requirements, rollback procedures, and operational considerations. Establish repeatable release checklists, quality gates, and readiness reporting. Identify manual release steps and incrementally replace them with safe automation. Participate in post-release verification and resolve or escalate release-related issues. Required
Qualifications Approximately 2 -4 years of professional software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or release engineering
experience. Ability to obtain a security
clearance Working knowledge of Git, branching, tagging, pull requests, and structured versioning.
Experience with CI/CD systems and automated build or deployment pipelines. Familiarity with containers and modern deployment environments. Ability to read and troubleshoot code in at least one modern programming language. Comfort working across multiple repositories and tracking dependencies between components.
Experience diagnosing build, test, configuration, or deployment failures. Strong written communication and attention to detail. Ability to follow an established release process while identifying practical improvements. Willingness to coordinate work across multiple engineering teams and release schedules.
Preferred
Qualifications
Experience with Kubernetes, deployment charts, container registries, and image promotion. Familiarity with backend, frontend, or systems programming languages and frameworks.
Experience maintaining release notes, upgrade documentation, or deployment runbooks. Familiarity with API contracts, service interfaces, and distributed systems.
Experience with integration or end-to-end testing in containerized environments. Exposure to software supply-chain practices such as dependency scanning, artifact signing, SBOM generation, or vulnerability management.
Experience supporting coordinated releases across related products or platforms. - Cubic Pay Range: $92,000.00 - $105,000.00 +
benefits. - The Cubic pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to)
responsibilities of the job,
education,
experience, knowledge,
skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law. - - Worker Type: Employee - We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate based on any protected characteristic under applicable law. Cubic creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation that make people-s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities that help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global challenges through innovation and service to our customers and partners. We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Cubic is dedicated to providing a comprehensive employee
benefits program. All regular, full-time and part-time employees (working an average of 20 hours per week) are eligible for
benefits that are effective on the first day of employment. Cubic offers medical, dental and vision insurance, company-paid disability (company continues full pay and
benefits for up to six weeks), life insurance options, critical illness and accident coverages, Flexible Spending Accounts, a pre-paid legal plan,
travel accident insurance, an award-winning well-being program which includes an employer-funded lifestyle spending account, up to six weeks of paid parental leave, and a 401k Retirement Plan with a company match. Employees can also take advantage of backup childcare, pet care, pet insurance, virtual tutoring, and a tuition reimbursement program. Many locations follow a 9/80 work schedule with time-off policies to help encourage employees to take time for rest and relaxation. Full-time salaried employees are eligible to participate in Cubic-s flexible time-off arrangement. Part-time and hourly employees accrue paid time-off (PTO)/Sick leave at a rate of 5.23 hours bi-weekly. Lastly, Cubic provides its employees 11 paid holidays throughout the calendar year. With a presence in over 60 countries and more than 5,000 employees worldwide, Cubic is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer. We are committed to ensuring a workplace free of discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, military or veteran status, and any other basis protected by applicable law. For more information on Equal Employment please visit: http://www.cubic.com/Careers/Applicant-Help To learn more, visit Cubic.com. Follow us on LinkedIn!