About this opportunity
Skill lists this Platform / CI Build Engineer opportunity in new york, New York. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Overview
Placement Type:
Temporary
Salary:
$70-78 Hourly
W2, Benefits and 401k matching
Start Date:
Oct 19, 2026
Duration:
01/04/2027 - potential to extend
Note: This role is remote but MUST be located on East Coast. If you are located in NYC Metro area you have the option of going onsite 1 day a week.
We are seeking a self-driven Platform/Build Engineer to join our domain engineering efforts supporting the critical infrastructure developers depend on daily: GitHub Enterprise (GHE), CI infrastructure and agents, and the overall developer experience across three core monorepos.
A major focus of this role is investigating build failures, managing CI capacity and agents, addressing urgent operational unblocking requests, and coordinating across cross-functional engineering teams when issues cross ownership boundaries.
Key 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.
Qualifications & Skills
Top Required Skills
Hard Skills:
Deep platform and developer infrastructure experience.
Broad understanding of scalable CI/CD pipelines and build infrastructure.
Hands-on experience and familiarity with Bazel.
Soft Skills:
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.
Who You Are
T-Shaped Engineer: Broad understanding of developer workflows, CI systems, build tools (Bazel), and agent infrastructure, coupled with the ability to dive deep technically when systems break.
Operational Execution: Hands-on experience with large-scale platform infrastructure; comfortable operating and troubleshooting systems in production, not just designing them.
Pragmatic & Self-Driven: Comfortable navigating ambiguous issues without clear ownership by gathering context, identifying key stakeholders, executing solutions, and maintaining transparent communication.
Developer Champion: Passionate about enabling engineer productivity and making complex infrastructure feel reliable and intuitive.
Nice-to-Have Skills
Self-driven, pragmatic candidates who enjoy improving developer productivity, enabling others, and operating in distributed, cross-timezone environments.
Role & Organizational Context
Management Responsibilities: Individual contributor role; no direct or indirect management of others.
Strategic Impact: Acts as first-line operational support to eliminate developer friction across CI/CD infrastructure and internal tooling. Drives development velocity and exerts broad influence by routing and resolving requests across platform and developer experience teams.
Key Focus & Metrics (6-12 Months): Central involvement in monorepo migration efforts, measured directly by local and pull-request iteration speeds.
Operating Environment: Balances reactive developer support with proactive planned platform improvements. Requires self-driven collaboration, primarily overlapping with EU-based teams during EST business hours.
Who can apply
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