Everlaw
Senior Software Engineer - Release Engineering
Oakland, California, United States · Senior · Full-time
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$5,149 more — $193,149 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $193,149 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- This is a full-time, exempt position based in our Oakland, CA office with a hybrid work schedule: in office M/W/Th with the option to work from home on Tu/Fr.
Responsibilities
- Dive deep into Gradle/Bazel configurations and our Java build graph to improve cache hit rates, parallelism, and resource utilization for our monorepo.
- Systematically identify and eliminate flaky tests and unstable infrastructure in our CI pipelines to ensure green builds provide highly trustworthy signals.
- Build automations that generate FedRAMP and other audit artifacts from our pipelines, reducing manual toil while improving our compliance posture.
- Shift logs and build outputs toward structured, traceable formats and implement clear, idempotent APIs to lay the groundwork for safe orchestration by future automation.
- Drive complex release engineering projects end-to-end-including scoping, technical design, execution, rollout, and post-launch improvements-while providing technical mentorship to peers.
- You have strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, system design, and distributed systems, with a track record of automating away operational toil.
Requirements
- You have 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on Release, DevOps, or Platform Engineering in cloud-based systems.
- You have strong proficiency in Java or a similar statically-typed language, and comfort scripting in Python and/or Bash.
- You have deep, hands-on experience with build tools such as Gradle, Bazel, or Maven at scale within large codebases.
- Experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and policy-as-code approaches.
- Experience with Bazel and/or multi-language monorepos.
- You are authorized to work in the United States.
Nice to have
- You have experience managing cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) using Terraform or similar IaC tools, alongside experience operating modern CI/CD platforms.
Compensation
- 401(k) plan with company matching of up to 4% of eligible annual compensation
- Four "Everlawlidays" (additional paid company-wide days off) per year
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
- Membership to Modern Health to support mental health and wellness
- Paid parental leave
- Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
- Competitive equity grants, so you share in Everlaw's long-term growth
- 17 paid vacation days, 11 federal holidays, and paid sick leave
Company info
- We use Gem as part of our hiring and/or promotional processes.
Visa & Work Authorization
- You are authorized to work in the United States.
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