Senior Software Engineer - Release Engineering

Everlaw is evolving its release infrastructure to support a future where AI

agents actively participate in deployments. We are looking for a hands-on Senior

Software Engineer to build, optimize, and harden the pipelines, data models, and

APIs that make this possible.

This is an execution-heavy, software engineering role, not a “keep the lights

on” position maintaining legacy tooling. You will be writing code, tuning

Gradle/Bazel builds, debugging CI flakes, and implementing the specific API

endpoints that allow both humans and agents to interact with our infrastructure

safely. You will build the high-performance plumbing that powers our transition

to an agent-ready platform.

At Everlaw, engineering is central to our mission of promoting justice by

illuminating truth. Our customers rely on us to handle mission-critical, highly

confidential data in commercial and FedRAMP-regulated environments, and our

release infrastructure is a key part of that trust.

This is a full-time, on-site position located in Oakland, California with an

expected hybrid schedule of 3 days/week in the office and 2 days/week at home.

GETTING STARTED

* We want you to feel like part of the team early on! Our onboarding process

will integrate you into the company with informative sessions on our product,

policies, processes, and team structure and goals.

* We’re excited for you to learn, grow, and contribute right away! We trust

that you’ll bring experience and knowledge that will uplift and uplevel the

team, but we don’t expect you to know everything on Day 1.

ABOUT THE RELEASE TEAM

The Release team in Platform Engineering owns the “path to production” for the

entire Everlaw engineering organization. We are responsible for:

* The Build: Managing compilation and packaging for our large JVM monorepo and

related services.

* The Pipeline: Operating the CI/CD systems that validate and promote changes

across FedRAMP and commercial environments.

* The Future: Making the release platform “agent ready.” That means refactoring

our infrastructure to be deterministic, API-driven, and structurally

transparent so AI agents can reason about changes without hallucinating, and

can act within well-defined safety guardrails.

You’ll work closely with Product Engineering, Security Engineering, and our

emerging AI/Agentic DevEx efforts to make shipping changes to Everlaw faster,

safer, and more automatable.

IN YOUR ROLE, YOU'LL...

MODERNIZE AND SCALE CORE CI/CD AND BUILD PERFORMANCE

Your first mandate is to make our existing release platform fast, reliable, and

observable.

* Reduce build and test times: Dive deep into Gradle/Bazel configurations and

our Java build graph to improve cache hit rates, parallelism, and resource

utilization for our monorepo.

* Increase signal quality: Systematically identify and eliminate flaky tests

and unstable infrastructure in our CI pipelines so that a “green build” is a

highly trustworthy signal.

* Automate compliance: Build automations that generate FedRAMP and other audit

artifacts from our pipelines (e.g., change logs, approvals, evidence of

controls), reducing manual toil while improving our compliance posture.

* Measure what matters: Instrument CI/CD and release workflows with metrics and

dashboards for latency, reliability, cost, and failure modes, and drive

concrete improvements from those insights.

EVOLVE TOWARD AUTOMATED & AGENTIC WORKFLOWS

Full AI agent integration is a longer-term goal. As we mature our release

platform, you’ll help lay the groundwork for “agent-ready” infrastructure by:

* Improving data hygiene: Gradually shifting logs and build outputs from

unstructured text toward structured, traceable formats, making debugging

easier for humans now and enabling future automation.

* Encouraging API-first operations: When building new tools or refactoring

pipelines, leaning toward clear, idempotent APIs instead of ad‑hoc

“click‑ops” or one‑off scripts, so we reduce toil today and keep the door

open for safe orchestration later.

* Strengthening automated guardrails: Supporting efforts to replace purely

human-dependent review steps with policy and safety checks in code, speeding

up releases now and defining the boundaries future automation must respect.

* Improving machine-friendly observability: Helping ensure that build and

release failures emit clear, parsable signals instead of opaque “red builds,”

enabling better automated triage over time.

EXECUTE ON INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE

* Own release infrastructure as code: Use tools like Terraform and Helm to

define and evolve the infrastructure that powers our builds and deployments

(runners, clusters, queues, controllers, supporting services).

* Maintain and scale environments: Manage configuration drift, health, and

scaling of our pre-production and production deployment targets, with a focus

on safety and repeatability.

* Enable safe, frequent deployments: Help design and roll out deployment

strategies (e.g., blue/green, canary, feature-flag-driven rollouts) that

balance rapid delivery with reliability across multiple environments,

including regulated contexts.

* Support ephemeral environments: Design and support PR- or feature-scoped

ephemeral environments for safe, isolated validation of changes (including

agent-generated changes), building on existing environment primitives.

* Participate in on-call: Join an on-call rotation for critical release and

platform incidents, and help improve runbooks, automation, and post-incident

learnings.

LEAD, MENTOR, AND COLLABORATE

* Lead multi-developer efforts: Drive complex projects end-to-end: scoping,

technical design, execution, rollout, and post-launch improvements in

partnership with your Engineering Manager and peers.

* Mentor others: Provide technical mentorship on CI/CD, IaC, and agent-ready

infrastructure; review designs and code; and help grow expertise across

Platform and Product Engineering.

* Partner across teams: Collaborate with Product, Security, SRE, and AI/Agentic

DevEx to ensure our release platform meets the needs of both developers and

customers.

ABOUT YOU

You are a builder, not just a maintainer. You prefer writing a plugin, CLI, or

automation over manually clicking through a console, and you have a track record

of automating away your own toil.

You have:

* 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on Release, DevOps,

or Platform Engineering in cloud-based systems.

* Strong proficiency in Java or a similar statically-typed language, and

comfort scripting in Python and/or Bash.

* Deep, hands-on experience with build tools such as Gradle, Bazel, or Maven at

scale (large codebases, many modules, complex dependency graphs).

* Experience managing cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) using Terraform or

similar IaC tools.

* Experience operating modern CI/CD platforms (e.g., GitHub Actions, Harness,

GitLab CI, or similar) and improving their performance, reliability, and

ergonomics.

* Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design, and

familiarity with distributed systems and networking concepts.

* Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and demonstrated experience

leading multi-developer efforts, including planning and technical breakdown.

You are:

* Someone who values “boring” reliability: you take pride in pipelines that run

thousands of times without failure, and you build in error handling, retries,

and idempotency by default.

* Excited about AI and agents, even if you are not training models yourself.

You understand that for AI agents to be effective, the underlying

infrastructure must be deterministic, observable, and API-driven, and you are

motivated to build that foundation.

* Please note that at this time, Everlaw is not sponsoring U.S. employment

visas for this role. Due to federal contract requirements, Everlaw may only

hire US citizens for this position.

PLUSES

* Experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and policy-as-code approaches.

* Experience working in regulated environments (e.g., FedRAMP, HIPAA, SOC 2)

and familiarity with their change-management and audit requirements.

* Experience using AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude

Code) and interest in integrating them into developer workflows and CI/CD

tooling.

* Experience with Bazel and/or multi-language monorepos.

* Contributions to open-source CI/CD, release, or IaC tooling, or public

speaking/writing on developer productivity or release engineering.

BENEFITS

* The expected salary range for this role is between $188,000 and $251,000. The

final offered salary will be dependent upon many factors including the

candidate’s experience and skills. The base pay range is subject to change in

the future.

* Equity program

* 401(k) retirement plan with company matching

* Health, dental, and vision

* Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses

* Paid parental leave and approximately 10 days (80 hours) per year of sick

leave

* Seventeen paid vacation days plus 11 federal holidays

* Membership to Modern Health [https://www.joinmodernhealth.com/] to help

employees prioritize mental health and wellness

* Annual allocation for Learning & Development opportunities and applicable

professional membership dues

* Company-sponsored life and disability insurance

* Find out more about our Benefits and Perks

[https://www.everlaw.com/careers/employee-benefits/]

PERKS

* Work in Uptown Oakland, just steps from the BART line and dozens of

restaurants and walking distance to Lake Merritt

* Flexible work-from-home days on Tuesdays and Fridays

* Monthly home internet reimbursement

* Select your preference of hardware (Mac or PC) and customize your desk setup

* Enjoy a wide variety of snacks and beverages in the office

* Bond over company-wide out-of-the-box events and fun activities with your

team

* Time off for company-sponsored volunteer events and 4 paid hours per quarter

to volunteer at a charitable organization of your choice

* Take advantage of learning and career development opportunities

* Ranked #9 on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work 2023 for US small and medium

companies

* One of Wealthfront’s 2021 Career Launching Companies

[https://blog.wealthfront.com/career-launching-companies-list/#companies-list],

and ranked #2 on the “2022 Bay Area Best Places to Work

[https://www.everlaw.com/blog/2022/05/05/2022-bay-area-best-places-to-work/]”

list by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley Business

Journal

* One of Fast Company’s World's Most Innovative Companies for 2022

[https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/everlaw-named-to-fast-companys-50-most-innovative-companies-for-2022-301497930.html]

and proud contributor of free ediscovery resources to benefit the greater

good through “Everlaw for Good” [https://www.everlaw.com/everlaw-for-good/]

* #LI-SN1

* #LI-Hybrid

Pursue Truth While Finding Yours

At Everlaw, we are deeply invested in pursuing the truth, for our clients and

for our employees. We know that when you’re empowered to pursue your passions,

it is reflected in the work. That’s why we’re committed to the professional

growth of all our team members, offering an annual learning and development

stipend and regular career check-ins with managers. If you’re looking for a

place that values passion, integrity, and a desire to learn, we’d love to hear

from you!

About Everlaw

[https://www.everlaw.com/company/mission/]

We help law firms, government agencies, and corporations sift through millions

of documents of evidence in big lawsuits and investigations to find the

proverbial smoking gun (or needle in the haystack -- pick your metaphor). It's a

multi-billion dollar space typically dominated by service-oriented vendors, and

we're coming at it with cutting-edge technology and elegant design. It's

working, and we've been growing very rapidly: we host hundreds of terabytes of

data and work with all 50 state Attorneys General and hundreds of law firms on

some of the most high-profile cases litigated today.

Everlaw is an equal opportunity employer. We pride ourselves on having a diverse

workforce and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because

of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender

identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information,

veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other

basis protected by law. We respect the gender, gender identity and gender

expression of our applicants and employees, and we honor requests for pronouns.

It is our policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws

pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity, including the California

Equal Pay Act

[https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml? lawCode=LAB&sectionNum=1197.5.].

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for

employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We collect and process the personal information you provided along with your job

application in accordance with our Applicants Privacy Notice and Notice at

Collection [https://www.everlaw.com/applicants-privacy-policy/].

When preparing to engage with Everlaw as a candidate, you may use AI tools for

research, polishing application materials, and interview prep. However, any

assessments (unless explicitly stated), remote interviews or live interviews

must be completed independently without AI support. By submitting your

application, you agree to adhere to these rules. Here's the link to our full

policy [https://www.everlaw.com/careers/candidate-ai-policy/], and please reach

out with any questions!

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