Revel
Senior Platform / Build Engineer, NIX
Los Angeles +1 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 26, 2026
- Location
- Los Angeles
San Francisco - Experience
- 5+ years building internal developer platforms, build systems, or CI/CD infrastructure.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
About the job
Build and operate Revel’s Nix-based build, CI, and deployment platform to ship software reliably to cloud and on-premise customer systems.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain Nix-native CI and deployment pipelines, including zero-downtime releases.
- Optimize CI compute capacity, pipeline throughput, and resource allocation; support capacity planning and procurement.
- Improve Nix-based packaging, NixOS adoption, developer workflows, and software delivery to customers.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience with a Nix-based or comparable build system for a real product with customers.
- Experience delivering software to a live system with a large user base, including zero-downtime deployment practices.
- Experience owning and optimizing a large CI system and compute pool.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code/configuration management and cloud infrastructure or on-premise hardware.
Nice to have
- Production NixOS experience.
- Experience with globally distributed deployments or hardware/compute capacity planning.
Tools
Nix, Nixpkgs, NixOS, Bazel, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Salt
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