Sr. Software Engineer II - Release Engineering

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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.