Senior Build/Platform Engineer, Mobile

Summary

Join Owner.com, a rapidly growing restaurant-commerce platform, as a Senior or Staff Build Engineer to own CI/CD across backend, frontend, and mobile. You will ensure engineers can confidently and reliably ship to production and app stores with minimal overhead and maximal uptime. Your builds will power various aspects of the platform, from Node.js microservices to iOS and Android apps. This role requires strong ownership of automation pipelines and hands-on experience with iOS build pipelines. You will collaborate with engineers across multiple teams and time zones, working with quality and SRE teams to drive observability and incident workflows. The position offers a competitive salary, remote work options, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• 5+ years as a Build, CI/CD, or Release Engineer, with strong ownership of automation pipelines in production environments
• Proven, recent hands-on ownership of iOS build pipelines: code signing, provisioning, Fastlane or Xcode Cloud automation, TestFlight/App Store delivery — for teams shipping multiple iOS apps per year
• Experience building and operating Android CI/CD pipelines: including Gradle, keystore management, .aab signing, Play Store upload
• Deep familiarity with CI/CD orchestration tools (GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins, CircleCI, Bitrise), runners management, and certificates/security models
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, Ruby, or Fastlane config languages)
• Infrastructure-as-code chops (Terraform/CloudFormation), containerization (Docker), and runner provisioning
• Solid grasp of distributed build topology, artifact caching, and scaling runners on-demand
• Ability to debug build failures across layers—local machine, remote runner, CI agent, or test environment
• Excellent written and spoke communication—able to document flows, onboarding, and provide technical training

Responsibilities

• Own and scale build automation — design, build, and maintain our CI/CD infrastructure (pipelines, runners, artifact storage, signing agents, self-hosted macOS runners); ensure developers across backend, frontend, and mobile can iterate quickly without worrying about builds breaking down
• Take charge of our mobile pipelines, with particular focus on iOS: automate versioning, provisioning profile management, keychain handling, automated signing, .ipa generation, TestFlight distribution, and App Store submission via Fastlane or native tooling
• Embed quality and traceability into build stages — integrate linting, on-device tests (XCTest, Espresso, Appium), code coverage metrics, and build-state dashboards to reduce flakiness and turnaround time
• Apply an SRE mindset to delivery — model build success/failure ratios as SLIs, define error budgets, track pipeline latency (time to green), and build alerts so broken builds are fixed within minutes
• Automate for speed and reliability — build caching, parallel job orchestration, staging environment mirroring (via Terraform), and fast rollback workflows so every pipeline is idempotent and traceable
• Champion cross-team collaboration — coach developers on writing reliable Makefile/Gradle/Xcode configurations, secure signing practices, and branching models
• Lead incident response for build failure — serve on rotational pager for CI systems, drive blameless post-mortems, and automate resilient fallback logic (e.g. fallback runners, sourced caching)
• Strategize adoption of next-gen tools — evaluate options like GitHub’s macOS runners, Bamboo, Bitrise, or Codemagic to support future iOS scale and cross-platform parity

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in fast-growing mobile teams shipping to both App Store and Google Play
• Exposure to GitOps or mobile-focused platforms (App Center, Bitrise Enterprise, Codemagic)
• Familiarity with cross‑platform apps (React Native, Flutter) and their idiosyncratic build flows
• Prior experience operating self-hosted macOS build farms or dealing with Apple’s signing complexities at scale
• Past work in regulated environments (PCI‑DSS, SOC 2) that required built-in signing and verification pipelines
• Background in SRE platform or DevOps roles with a focus on latency SLIs, error budgets for build systems

Benefits

• The estimated base salary range of $190,000 - 210,000k USD along with pre‑IPO equity
• 100% remote across U.S. or Canada
• Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Home‑office stipend, choice of hardware, and support to set up private build infrastructure if needed
• Twice‑annual company off‑sites to align strategy and socialize