Senior Software Engineer - Release & Platform Engineering

Job description

There are NO limits to your career: come shape the future and be part of a truly unique global culture at OutSystems! About This Role Release Engineering is OutSystems' is a Platform Engineering function. The group owns the platform's build and deployment orchestration, empowering product and development teams to focus on delivering business value. North Star: to empower teams to focus on delivering business value, by creating a zero-touch, secure, reliable, and cutting-edge technology platform capable of orchestrating full build and production deployment processes. The group is organized into small, autonomous squads. Release Engineers work across the full software delivery lifecycle — from CI/CD and containerization to cloud infrastructure and release governance — and act as a trusted point of support for engineering teams across the company via the group's dedicated support channels. This is a hybrid role: part software engineer, part cloud/infrastructure engineer, and part release governance owner. Expectations scale with seniority — from being autonomous in your own work, to leveraging your knowledge to help the team hit its goals, to guiding others and balancing technical, business, and operational needs. Key Responsibilities • CI/CD ownership: Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Actions workflows) that power build, test, and deployment automation across OutSystems services. • Container & image management: Maintain and secure the Docker base-image catalogue (ingestion, versioning, deprecation, scanning) and manage AMI/machine-image pipelines (Packer, EC2 Image Builder) for build and CI infrastructure. • Cloud infrastructure: Manage and provision cloud resources across AWS (ECR, EC2, IAM/OIDC) and Azure (ACR, Azure DevOps), using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform via Spacelift). • Versioning & packaging: Own semantic versioning and package management practices (GitVersion, SemVer, NuGet feeds) to keep releases consistent and traceable. • Release governance: Operate release governance processes, including RFC/CAB change management, deployment gating, and rollback procedures for production changes. • Operational support: Staff the Release Engineering support rotation, triaging and resolving developer requests and incidents raised through dedicated support channels. • Monitoring & metrics: Build and maintain observability into pipelines and deployments using tools such as Grafana, Power BI, and Kibana. • Security & compliance: Uphold security and compliance standards (SOC 2 and FedRAMP controls, vulnerability scanning via Wiz/Snyk) across the release pipeline. • Leadership & enablement: As seniority grows, guide other engineers, mentor teams adopting CI platform/release best practices, and represent Release Engineering's roadmap to stakeholders across the company. Skills You Need to Succeed Skills below are ranked by how central they are to day-to-day Release Engineering work. Must-haves are used constantly and span nearly every squad; good-to-haves add significant value but are more specialized or team-specific and can often be developed on the job. MUST HAVES: CI/CD pipelines: Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Actions — designing, debugging, and maintaining build/release workflows. OCI Lifecycle: Development and management of the full life cycle of OCI artifacts. Cloud platform fundamentals: AWS (ECR, IAM/OIDC, EC2, RDS) and Azure (ACR,Azure Machines and DBs, Azure DevOps) core services. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & Image Building: Proficiency in Terraform, CloudFormation for cloud provisioning and experience with Packer and EC2 Image Builder are must-have skills. Ownership under pressure: A strong sense of urgency, customer focus, and reliability as a support point for other engineering teams. GOOD TO HAVES: Git workflows & semantic versioning: Branching strategies, tagging, GitVersion/SemVer discipline, and NuGet/npm feed mechanics. Observability & monitoring: Hands-on experience designing, building, and managing end-to-end monitoring and alerting systems to gain operational insights across pipelines and platform components (e.g., using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Power BI, or Kibana). Security & vulnerability scanning: Working knowledge of security practices, vulnerability scanning, and compliance standards such as SOC 2 and FedRAMP. Release & change governance: RFC/CAB processes and staged (ring-based) promotion models for production changes. GitOps & Kubernetes: Flux-based GitOps repositories and Helm release troubleshooting across multiple environment rings. Cross-team mentoring & leadership: Experience mentoring other engineers or representing a team's roadmap to stakeholders More about OutSystems OutSystems is a leading AI Development Platform built for the enterprise. Global organizations trust OutSystems to rapidly build mission-critical apps and agents, modernize legacy processes with agentic systems, and govern their entire AI portfolio across complex regulatory environments, all on one unified platform. As the future becomes agentic, our customers need us now more than ever. While AI has opened the door to extraordinary possibilities, most large organizations find themselves stuck on one side of the "enterprise gap" because AI by itself doesn't solve their complex use cases and business challenges. OutSystems bridges the "enterprise gap" by combining the speed of generative AI with a deterministic, enterprise-grade framework. We provide the tools for teams of any size to deliver high-quality, reliable AI solutions that drive real business impact. We are looking for passionate, talented, and motivated people to join us as we empower organizations to build, deploy, and scale the next generation of enterprise software. While we are leading the charge into the agentic era, our mission is broader: we are the platform enterprise leaders trust to evolve their entire business, accelerating innovation through secure, governed human-AI collaboration. OutSystems is a global company, with more than 900k developer community members, 1,700 employees, more than 600 partners, and thousands of active customers in over 75 countries and across 21 industries. Founded in 2001, OutSystems now has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, the UAE, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia, India, and Singapore, and includes a thriving, worldwide community of remote employees. Our customers are some of the world's most recognizable brands across diverse industries— such as Toyota, Heineken, Bosch, KeyBank, and UCLA—who trust OutSystems to deliver ROI and transformational impact. Consistently recognized as a leader by top analyst firms Gartner, IDC and Forrester, OutSystems continues to shape the future of enterprise software development in the agentic era. We are proud to be named a leader in more than 100 categories on G2, including #1 in Customer Satisfaction in Enterprise Low Code Development, and most recently as a leader in AI Agent Building in the G2 Spring 2026 Reports. Working at OutSystems Our culture is built on our core values of Trust, Customer Success, Innovation, and Alignment. We operate as one global OutSystems team, taking ownership to pursue our vision of being the AI platform enterprise leaders trust to build, secure, and evolve their most critical applications and systems. What do we have to offer you? A company at the vanguard of the agentic revolution, where we don’t just react to AI innovation—we architect it. Joining OutSystems means stepping onto a high-growth rocket ship that combines the fearless agility of a startup with the sophisticated, global foundation of an enterprise powerhouse. Real growth opportunities. We don't just talk about development; we invest in it through structured programs designed to scale your expertise. Whether you are aiming for vertical progression, exploring lateral moves into new domains, or mastering specialized AI skills through our Professional Development Fund and Internal Mobility Program, we provide the resources to get you there. A global collective of world-class talent, where you’ll collaborate with enterprise software legends and sought-after thought leaders. At OutSystems, our industry experts aren't just visionaries—they are accessible, approachable mentors who are deeply invested in your growth as we architect the agentic future together. OutSystems nurtures an inclusive culture where talented individuals from all backgrounds are empowered to learn, experiment and make an impact. . We believe that driving our next phase of growth requires the radical creativity that only comes from diverse perspectives. We are committed to building a team as global and diverse as the organizations we serve, ensuring every individual can perform to their full potential. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants receive equal consideration regardless of race, origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status.