Software Engineer, Builder Tools

About this role

Hadrian seeks a Software Engineer to build and maintain the CI/CD infrastructure, internal tooling, and AI-assisted development workflows that empower engineering teams across the company. You'll design high-leverage systems that directly impact developer productivity and help accelerate manufacturing innovation in aerospace and defense.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipeline libraries for multi-team use across build, release, and deployment
• Design internal tools, APIs, and CLI utilities that reduce developer friction and automate routine engineering tasks
• Make internal systems AI-ready for coding agents by building harness tooling and feedback loops
• Instrument developer productivity systems and surface bottlenecks through metrics
• Partner with application teams to identify needs and drive adoption of CI/CD best practices
• Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to incident postmortems

What they're looking for

• CI/CD pipeline design and infrastructure (5–8 years experience)
• Programming in Go, Python, TypeScript, or similar languages
• Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes or equivalent)
• Git and source control concepts
• Complex systems troubleshooting and debugging
• Developer experience and API design
• AI coding tools and agent integration (preferred)
• GitOps principles (preferred)