Release (Software ) Engineer

At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company's success.

As a Software Engineer within PNC's Technology organization, you will be based in Pittsburgh, PA or Phoenix, AZ, Dallas, TX, Cleveland, OH and Birmingham, AL.

The successful candidate should have a technical/coding background and focused on customer service, collaboration, and quality.

We are seeking a skilled Release Engineer with a strong focus on Salesforce release management and DevSecOps CI/CD practices. This role is critical to ensuring high-quality, secure, and efficient delivery of code across multiple Salesforce environments.

The ideal candidate will partner closely with development teams to enforce quality gates, manage release cycles, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines.

This position plays a key role in maintaining release stability, platform integrity, and delivery velocity by ensuring robust CI/CD practices and disciplined release management in a complex Salesforce ecosystem.

Release Engineering & Management - Plan, coordinate, and execute releases across all Salesforce organizations and environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Prod). - Create, manage, and deploy Salesforce metadata packages to ensure consistent and reliable releases. - Oversee release schedules, dependencies, and environment readiness to meet delivery commitments. - Lead release preparation meetings and triage deployment & packaging issues

DevSecOps & CI/CD Support - Support developers with pull request reviews, focusing on CI pipeline quality gates and exception handling. - Enforce secure coding practices and compliance checks within the CI/CD pipeline. - Collaborate with teams to resolve pipeline failures and deployment issues.

Salesforce Environment Management - Plan and manage Salesforce org utilization, including maintenance, refreshes, and configuration alignment. - Coordinate code promotion strategies across environments while minimizing risk and downtime. Automation & Pipeline Enhancement - Design, implement, and enhance Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines. - Automate build, test, and deployment processes to improve efficiency and reliability. - Integrate quality and security tools into pipelines (e.g., static code analysis, vulnerability scanning).

Continuous Improvement - Identify opportunities to optimize release processes, tooling, and governance. - Drive standardization and automation of release procedures. - Establish and refine best practices for release engineering and DevOps workflows. ________________________________________ Preferred Technical Skills - Jenkins (pipeline development) - Groovy / Java - Bash, PowerShell, Python scripting - Git (branching/merging strategies) - Bitbucket (Data Center) - Jira (Data Center) - Linux fundamentals ________________________________________ Nice-to-Have Skills - Salesforce platform (metadata deployments, org strategy) - SonarQube / Sonar Scanner - PMD - Checkmarx - Jest - GitHub - GitHub Actions - GitHub Copilot - GenAI and agentic development concepts ________________________________________ Preferred Soft Skills - Self-starter with strong initiative - Driven to learn and grow technical expertise - Process improvement mindset - Effective communicator across technical and non-technical teams - Strong problem-solving ability - Excellent time management and prioritization skills ________________________________________

Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) is preferred. - Proven experience in release engineering or DevOps engineering roles is preferred. - Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile practices is preferred. - Experience managing multi-environment deployments and release coordination is preferred.

- Develops, tests and implements software solutions. - Designs software solutions to address business needs. - Writes code, tests and deploys software. - Prepares technical and procedural documentation required for software. - Maintains and debugs software.

Preferred Skills Application Development, Business Management, Collaboration, Communication, Customer Solutions, Design, Group Problem Solving, Process Improvements, Release Management, Self-Starter, Software Solutions, User Experience (UX) Design

Competencies Application Design, Architecture, Application Development Tools, Application Maintenance, Application Testing, Packaged Application Integration, System Development Life Cycle, Technical Troubleshooting, Technical Writing/Documentation

Work Experience Roles at this level typically require a university / college degree, with 2+ years of relevant professional experience. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.

Generally, this opening is expected to be posted for two business days from 05/14/2026, although it may be longer with business discretion.