Joblaze summary

In this role, the Software Engineer for CI/CD at Neuralink will focus on designing and scaling a continuous integration and deployment platform that supports various engineering teams. Key skills include expertise in Bazel, Kubernetes, and GitLab CI, along with a strong background in UNIX systems and reproducible build environments. This position is ideal for someone with significant experience in build systems and CI tooling, particularly in complex environments. The Infrastructure Team plays a crucial role in ensuring the reliability and efficiency of systems that support groundbreaking brain-computer interface technology.

Joblaze insights

Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Neuralink's careers page October 25, 2026.
Salary band is below the typical range for DevOps/SRE roles (median ~$165,000).
Starts above 21% of 56 comparable mid devops/sre roles that list Kubernetes we track (median $125,000 across 21 companies). See Kubernetes salary trends
Kubernetes appears in 64.3% of 221 comparable mid devops/sre roles; Ubuntu appears in 0.5% of 221 comparable mid devops/sre roles.

Quick facts

What's the salary range?: Neuralink lists $123,000–$216,000 for this role.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Bazel, Darwin, Fedora, GitLab CI, Kubernetes.
What seniority level is this role?: Neuralink targets mid-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Software Engineer, CI/CD role at Neuralink.

From the original posting

About Neuralink:

Team Description:

The Infrastructure Team builds the foundation that enables the company to operate safely, robustly, and move at light-speed. We run a mixture of cloud-based and on-prem systems and have a user base spanning from highly technically proficient engineers to non-technical scientists and doctors; but all of them need solid systems, rugged networking, and bullet-proof software to do their jobs.

Job Responsibilities and Description:

As a Software Engineer, CICD you will integrate tightly with teams across the company, and span all layers of the work environment stack, from deployment of physical hardware on the manufacturing line, to custom tooling to stream neural recordings from implants. You will:

Design and scale the CI/CD platform that enables engineering teams to ship safely and quickly across verticals including, but not limited to, Brain Implant, Surgical Robot, BCI App, Clinical, Full-stack services and infrastructure
Own the software/firmware build tooling at scale. This includes remote caching, remote execution, target identification and selection, etc.
Operate and scale a runner fleet spanning on-prem and cloud clusters, cover multiple hardware platforms including Mac, Linux, Embedded devices and Hardware-in-the-loop fixtures
Maintain reproducible build and CI environments with Nix
Instrument CI health with Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, and automated alerting to maintain high signal-to-noise on pipeline reliability
Reduce developer cycle time through pre-commit tooling, caching strategies, test sharding, and build graph optimization

Tech Stack:

Rust, Python
Terraform
Bazel and Nix
Kubernetes
GitLab CI
AWS
Darwin, Ubuntu, Fedora

Required Qualifications:

Deep experience operating Bazel, or similar hermetic build systems
Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes
Production experience with GitLab CI (or comparable CI platform), including pipeline architecture, runner fleet management, and custom executor integrations
Expertise in operating UNIX systems, including Linux and Mac
Familiarity with Nix for reproducible environments, or equivalent experience ensuring hermetic, cacheable builds
Bachelor's degree in computer science, a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Familiarity with hardware in the loop testing setups
Experience working with build system and CI tooling in a monorepo context

Expected Compensation:

Base Salary Range:

$123,000—$216,000 USD

What We Offer:

Standard company text repeated across Neuralink's postings is omitted here.

Software Engineer, CI/CD

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