Senior Software Engineer II - Release Engineering - Remote

Overview

This role is on the Self-Managed Release Engineering Team, a subteam of the Platform Engineering organization. This team standardizes the release process of self-managed artifacts such as binaries, linux packages, terraform providers, and docker images, across all of our product lines. Our mission is to build tools that give teams a repeatable, reliable, and lovable way to deliver all their artifacts to customers on a scalable platform. We believe our customers (internal developers in R&D) should enjoy using our tools and our tools should be transparent enough that they are a part of their day to day development workflow without additional toil.

In Short

• Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of build and release systems that support all self-managed product engineers.
• Enhance our release engineering process and collaborate with the Cloud Release Engineering team.
• Split time between execution and enablement work, comfortable operating under ambiguity.
• Collaborate across internal teams to lead and improve release tooling and services.
• Gather requirements for release tooling and create multi-quarter and multi-year plans.
• Continuously improve automated build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Evolve the CI/CD strategy for product pipelines focusing on reusability and reliability.
• Measure and quantify improvements in release processes.
• Mentor other release engineers and nurture a culture of high-quality work.
• Participate in on-call rotation to address critical release issues.

Requirements

• Experience scripting and building developer tools with proficiency in testing.
• Solid hands-on coding 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 installers.
• Proficient using source control tools like Git.
• Passion for working on developer tooling and release automation.
• Knowledge of observability tools like Datadog and Grafana.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies.
• Collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• Professional development and mentorship opportunities.
• Flexible work arrangements.