Sr Software Engineer II - Release Engineering
Sr Software Engineer II - Release Engineering
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Sr. Software Engineer II Release Engineering
About the team
This role is on the SelfManaged Release Engineering Team a subteam of the Platform Engineering organization. This team standardizes the release process of selfmanaged 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 this role you can expect to:
- Lead the design implementation and optimization of build and release systems that support all selfmanaged 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 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 multiquarter and multiyear 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 highquality work and continuous learning.
- Participate in our oncall rotation to address critical release issues for our internal customers in Engineering.
Within 1 month youll
- Learn about our company products and team.
- Have 11s and pairing sessions with team members youll be working most closely with and spend time getting to know your peers across the engineering org.
- Dive into the things weve built and learn more about our coding and releasing practices along the way.
- Gain an understanding of the shared struggles and commonpitfalls within engineering and work to alleviate those with better automation tooling and documentation.
- Begin working on your first project within a group ship the MVP celebrate your success and iterate based on feedback.
- Review and comment on project proposals from other team members.
Within 3 months youll
- Extensively contribute to tools and services which will enable selfservice developer workflows and reduce toil.
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to establish and prioritize new features and enhancements. You understand and can foresee how decisions may impact the quality efficiency and success of our team and closely related teams.
- Write and share a project proposal with the team.
- Lead a group project and present in one of our quarterly demo sessions to key stakeholders.
- Take requirements gathered from stakeholders and produce a multiyear vision for the next iteration of release tooling.
What youll need (basic qualifications)
- 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
Whats nice to have (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) infrastructureascode 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 selfreliance and autonomy.
- A track record of leading large scale developer productivity efforts influencing architecture and best practice changes.
- Youve thought about what it means to enable the success of an engineering team. Sometimes this means youll be shipping but sometimes its important that youre not the one to write the code.
- Youre comfortable getting involved in strategic conversations. You may have attempted to translate a highlevel company objective into tangible outcomes for your team and successfully delivered on those outcomes.
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Individual pay within the range will be determined based on job relatedfactors such as skills experience and education or training.
HashiCorp is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. HashiCorp will be the hiring entity. By proceeding with this application you understand that HashiCorp will share your personal information with other IBM subsidiaries involved in your recruitment process wherever these are located. More information on how IBM protects your personal information including the safeguards in case of crossborder data transfer are available here: link to IBM privacy statement.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
