Staff Software Engineer, Release Engineering

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Release Engineering team, focusing on building and improving platforms that enable software delivery across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Own and operate Release Engineering platforms including GitHub Enterprise Cloud, GitHub Actions, SonarQube, and Nexus
• Design, build, and maintain GitHub Actions workflows and pipelines used across multiple engineering teams and organizations
• Lead initiatives to reduce and eliminate use of personal access tokens (PATs) by designing and promoting safer, more scalable authentication patterns
• Partner with Cyber and platform stakeholders to define, document, and enforce approved approaches for authentication and automation
• Provide guidance to application teams on replacing PAT-based integrations with supported alternatives and best practices
• Evaluate and govern artifact management use cases in Nexus, including approving or rejecting requests based on supportability, risk, and long-term maintenance considerations
• Work with the IdP team to ensure identity integration, access controls, and entitlement models are correctly reflected in RelEng-owned tooling and workflows
• Plan and scope work by breaking down initiatives, providing T‑shirt size estimates, identifying dependencies, and surfacing risks early
• Track work in Jira, keeping tickets up to date with clear descriptions, acceptance criteria, status, and ownership
• Collaborate with engineering managers and peers to support sprint planning, prioritization, and delivery commitments
• Ensure monitoring and alerting are in place for key systems and workflows and pipelines, with clear ownership and actionable signals
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and follow-up improvements related to workflows, integrations, and platform behavior
• Reduce manual and ad hoc work by building standardized automation and selfservice workflows
• Support and enable application teams with adopting GitHub Actions, Nexus, and related tooling through hands-on help, documentation, and clear recommendations
• Serve as a friendly, approachable point of contact for teams with questions or issues related to Release Engineering tooling
• Create and maintain documentation, runbooks, and operational standards for RelEng platforms and workflows
• Provide technical guidance and design input to other engineers on the team

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and professional experience in Computer Science or a related field
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, developer tooling, or related discipline
• Hands‑on experience building, operating, and supporting GitHub Actions workflows and pipelines in a production environment
• Experience administering and supporting GitHub Enterprise Cloud or comparable source control and collaboration platforms
• Experience operating and integrating developer tools such as SonarQube, Nexus, or equivalent code quality and artifact repository platforms
• Experience designing automation using APIs and scripting to reduce manual or ad‑hoc operational work
• Experience implementing safer authentication patterns and reducing reliance on personal access tokens (PATs) through scalable alternatives
• Experience working with Cyber partners to translate compliance and risk requirements into platform guardrails and standard practices
• Experience collaborating with Identity or IdP teams on access controls, entitlement models, and SSO‑based integrations
• Experience planning and tracking work using Jira or similar tools, including estimation and delivery tracking
• Experience operating shared platforms with responsibility for monitoring, alerting, incident response, and follow-up improvements
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, customer-focused approach when supporting engineering teams