Senior Software Engineer II - Release Engineering

Summary

Join our Self-Managed Release Engineering Team as a Sr. Software Engineer II and lead the design, implementation, and optimization of build and release systems. You will play a key role in enhancing our release engineering process, collaborating with other teams to develop uniform standards and support developers. This role involves a balance of execution and enablement work, requiring comfort with ambiguity. You will collaborate across teams, gather requirements, and translate them into multi-year plans. Continuous improvement of automated workflows and mentoring other engineers are also key responsibilities. The position offers opportunities for professional growth and impact within a dynamic environment.

Requirements

• Experience scripting and building developer tools with proficiency in unit and integration testing
• Solid hands on coding and development experience with at least one programming language
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Operating and maintaining production systems in a Linux and public cloud environment
• Experience with container technologies, especially Docker
• Building software packages and software installers
• Proficient using source control tools like Git
• You have a passion for working on developer tooling and release automation for OSS and enterprise software in business critical environments
• Knowledge of observability tools such as Datadog and Grafana, to collect, analyze and visualize metrics, providing insight into product usage and performance

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of build and release systems that support all self-managed product engineers
• Play a key role in enhancing our release engineering process
• Collaborate with our Cloud Release Engineering team to develop uniform standards
• Support developers by simplifying their work and ensuring our tools are compliant with legal and reliability requirements
• Split time between execution and enablement work, where you must be comfortable operating under ambiguity
• Collaborate across internal teams to lead and improve release tooling and services while fostering a culture of inclusivity, respect, and openness
• Contribute to building an environment where all voices are heard and valued
• Work across teams to gather requirements for our release tooling and turn them into multi-quarter and multi-year plans for improving our systems
• Continuously improve automated build, test and deployment workflows
• Help to evolve the CI/CD strategy for our product pipelines with a focus on reusability, reliability and scale
• Be able to measure and quantify improvements in our release processes
• Mentor other release engineers, nurturing a culture of high-quality work and continuous learning
• Participate in our on-call rotation to address critical release issues for our internal customers in Engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficient in project management and can successfully transition through different stages and tasks of a project
• You have a passion for automation, testing, reliability, operational maturity, and documentation
• Experience with container orchestration (e.g., Nomad, Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), secrets management tools (e.g., Vault) and other HashiCorp products (e.g., Packer, Consul)
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudFront and ECR in a professional setting
• Experienced in working across a distributed team, able to consistently deliver quality results when given a high level of self-reliance and autonomy
• A track record of leading large scale developer productivity efforts, influencing architecture and best practice changes
• You’ve thought about what it means to enable the success of an engineering team. Sometimes this means you’ll be shipping, but sometimes it’s important that you’re not the one to write the code
• You’re comfortable getting involved in strategic conversations. You may have attempted to translate a high-level company objective into tangible outcomes for your team, and successfully delivered on those outcomes

Benefits

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