Lead Build & Release Infrastructure Engineer

Job Description

We are Rokt, a hyper-growth ecommerce leader.

Rokt is the global leader in ecommerce, unlocking real-time relevance in the moment that matters most. Rokt’s AI Brain and ecommerce Network powers billions of transactions connecting hundreds of millions of customers and is trusted to do this by the world’s leading companies.

We are a team of builders helping smart businesses find innovative ways to meet customer needs and generate incremental revenue. Leading companies drive 10-50% of additional revenue—and often all their profits—from the extra products or services they sell. This economic edge unleashes a world of possibilities for growth and innovation.

The Rokt engineering team builds best-in-class ecommerce technology that provides personalized and relevant experiences for customers globally and empowers marketers with sophisticated, AI-driven tooling to understand consumers better. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day. It considers billions of data points which give engineers the opportunity to build technology at scale, collaborate across teams and gain exposure to a wide range of technology.

We are looking for a Lead Build & Release Infrastructure Engineer

Target total compensation ranges from $385,000 - $520,000, including a fixed annual salary of $260,000 - $320,000, an employee equity plan grant, and world-class benefits.

Equity grants are issued in good faith and are subject to company policies, board approval, and individual eligibility.

As our Lead Build & Release Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll play a dual role: delivering impact as a hands-on engineer while guiding others through technical leadership. You’ll set direction for our build and release platforms, mentor engineers, and ensure our systems scale with the needs of a fast-moving business. This is a true player-coach role—expected to ship production code while also shaping practices, roadmaps, and outcomes for the team.

About the role:

Provide technical leadership and direction for our build and release strategy, from source commit through production rollout

Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines (Buildkite or equivalent), ensuring lightning-fast feedback loops and safe, repeatable deployments

Design and optimize container build pipelines (ECR/Docker), Helm charts, and progressive delivery mechanisms (Argo Rollouts, canary, blue/green)

Champion infrastructure as code—driving the evolution of Terraform modules and CI-driven workflows for resilient provisioning

Operate and improve our artifact ecosystem (Nexus, custom plugins), ensuring libraries and packages remain secure, performant, and developer-friendly

Act as a player-coach: contributing code while mentoring teammates, leading by example, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement

Depending on experience and interest, take on either dotted-line project leadership or direct people management responsibilities

Requirements

About You:

5+ years driving high-velocity build & release, DevOps, or platform engineering practices in distributed environments

Deep expertise in CI/CD design and tooling—especially Buildkite or equivalent platforms—and hands-on mastery of Terraform

Strong background in container technologies (Docker/ECR), Kubernetes packaging (Helm), and progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts

Proficiency in scripting languages (Bash, Python, or similar) plus fluency with Linux tooling and cloud-native workflows

Track record of mentoring engineers, leading technical projects, and influencing stakeholders across teams

Passion for automation, velocity, and reliability—with a pragmatic approach to balancing innovation with stability

Experience managing or guiding teams (formally or informally) is a plus, but not required

Benefits

About Rokt’stars:

As a mission-driven, hyper-growth community of curious explorers, our ambition is to unlock real-time relevancy in ecommerce and beyond. Our bias for action means we are not afraid to quickly venture into uncharted territories, take risks, or challenge the status quo; in doing so we either win or learn. We work together as one aligned team never letting egos get in the way of brilliant ideas. We value diversity, transparency and smart humble people who enjoy building a disruptive business together. We pride ourselves on being a force for good as we make the world better.

About the Benefits:

We leverage best-in-class technology and market-leading innovation in AI and ML, with all of that being underlined by building and maintaining a fantastic and inclusive culture where people can be their authentic selves and offering a great list of perks and benefits to go with it:

Become a shareholder. Every Rokt’star gets equity in the company

Enjoy catered lunch every day and healthy snacks in the office.

Access generous retirement plans like a 4% dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan and great health benefits for you and your dependents.

Dog-friendly office

Extra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.)

Work with the greatest talent in town

See the world! We have offices in New York, Seattle, Sydney, Tokyo and London

We believe we’re better together. We love spending time together and are in the office most days (teams are in the office 4 days per week).

We at Rokt choose to create a company that is as diverse and inclusive as the world we live in by attracting, growing & keeping the best talent. Equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Full-time