About Owner
Owner is the AI-native system local business owners use to succeed, starting with restaurants.
We’re building the system that replaces the many tools owners use to run their business.
It powers everything from the restaurant’s website, online ordering, CRM, POS, and more.
Product philosophy
Most small business software makes owners do the work to get what they want: sales growth and profit growth. Owner does the work for them agentically.
Our system drives demand, converts it, and helps operators run their business day to day. As it improves, the business improves with it.
Using Owner should feel like having a team of great operators, engineers, and marketers working for you.
Our vision
We’re starting by helping independent restaurants succeed online.
But it’s not just restaurants that need our help. Most local businesses are struggling with these same problems. Huge technology corporations are taking their customers, bleeding their profits, and making it hard for them to survive.
Once we nail the solution for restaurants – we’ll scale it into every other local business type.
In the future we envision, tens of millions of local business owners will use our technology to succeed in the digital age.
Our traction
Since 2020, we've generated tens of millions in revenue and processed over a billion dollars of online orders. 1 in 5 Americans have used an Owner.com website.
More importantly, we’ve helped over 20,000 restaurant owners, and saved them nearly $200 million in fees.
Our team
Our team is now in the low hundreds. We’ve got top talent from the most successful companies in SMB software, including: Shopify, HubSpot, DoorDash, ServiceTitan, Rappi, Faire and Stripe.
We’ll be scaling even faster in 2026 to keep pace with our customer growth.
Where we work
Owner is a remote-first, global company headquartered in San Francisco, with a sales hub in Toronto. For a few of our roles we prioritize in-person collaboration at one of our office locations. Most of our teammates are distributed throughout the globe. Please review the role description and discuss with your recruiter for more details on location!
Why we’re looking for you
Owner.com’s restaurant‑commerce platform is growing rapidly, and our build pipelines must keep pace. We’re hiring a mission‑driven Staff Build Engineer to own CI/CD across backend, frontend, AND mobile—iOS build pipeline experience is absolutely required. You’ll ensure engineers can ship confidently to production and App Stores, quickly and reliably, with minimal overhead and maximal uptime.
Your builds power everything from Node.js microservices and web storefronts to iOS and Android apps used by restaurants, diners, and Owner.com’s back‑office teams.
How you’ll make an impact
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.
Who you’ll work with
Engineers across backend, frontend, and mobile in multiple time zones
Quality and SRE teams to drive observability and incident workflows
Product and restaurant‑ops teams to align build and release cadence with customer delivery timelines
Minimum 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
Bonus Experience (Nice to have)
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
Pay & benefits
The estimated base salary range of $240-250K 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
Notice - Employment Scams
Communication from our team regarding job opportunities will only be made by an Owner team member with an @owner.com email address.
We do not conduct interviews over email or chat platforms, and we will never ask you to provide personal or financial information such as your mailing address, social security number, credit card numbers or banking information. If you believe you are being contacted by a scammer, please mark the communication as "phishing" or “spam” and do not respond.
