Release Engineer
San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Calypso Technology is seeking a highly motivated and innovative individual to join the Release Engineering team for the purpose of supporting our next generation of developer tools and infrastructure. Release Engineering is the hub around which Engineering, Product Support, Product Management and Quality Assurance revolves around for environments support, source code maintenance, software governance, continuous integration, project planning and release scheduling. Release Engineering believes in continuous improvement in tools and process to create a 24/7 support culture, and to provide innovative self-serve tools to our internal customers. This candidate will report into the Global head of Release Engineering organization.

Responsibilities:

Setup, support and manage all engineering productivity systems, tools and infrastructure for the R&D team

Design and maintain automation for continuous integration to support the build and release process for the global distribution of Calypso software

Manage and support CI/CD pipelines running on Jenkins

Investigate tools and processes to improve the reliability, stability and efficiency of build and releases processes

Work closely with development team to implement new build processes and strategies to meet new product requirements

Required:

2-5 years of experience managing engineering teams

Minimum of 5 years of experience working with Java and tools development

Strong knowledge of engineering tools, such as Git, Jenkins, Nexus and Eclipse

Troubleshooting with a talent for solving n-tiered architecture-configuration problems

JVM application-configuration and tuning

Strong UNIX/shell scripting, Groovy and Python

Good verbal and written communication skills in English

Desired:

Gradle experience

Experience with container technology, such as Docker, and container orchestration system, such as kubernetes

Experience with technologies that captures infrastructure as code, i.e. terraform