Release Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage all aspects of the internal beta and production app release process.
• Lead operations for Production iOS and Android releases on a rotational basis.
• Communicate all key release milestones, requirements and changes to the organization.
• Manage cross-functional relationships and ensure there is healthy communication among Engineering, QA and Release teams.
• Write operational runbooks and documentation to support the Release team as needed.
• Research new technologies and release management methodologies for application in internal tooling improvements.
• Continuously assess risk factors to our Production users and actively drive mitigation strategies.
• Manage risk and mitigate issues that could affect release reliability and stability.
• Conduct release readiness reviews, launch communications for releases and post-mortem meetings as required.
• Investigate, escalate and drive solutions for emergent or complex technical issues.
• Provide contextual judgement and use data to drive decisions.
• Provide after-hours support as necessary.
• Monitor and provide regular status reports to leadership and the organization.
• Measure, monitor and report on key release metrics weekly and ad-hoc as needed.

Requirements:

• 5+ years in a technical capacity with 2+ years in release management or TPM capacity.
• Experience managing mobile application releases and a deep understanding of release management principles.
• Experience working cross-functionally with globally distributed teams that have differing business priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to influence and convey messages to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills and experience utilizing tools to visualize trends and key metric monitoring.
• Experience making critical decisions for complex technical issues in real time, considering timelines and urgency.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to execute.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Bitrise, Jenkins, Fastlane, CircleCI or equivalent tools.
• Experience working with App Store Connect and Google PlayStore Console.
• BA/BS in computer science or any related technical field (or equivalent work experience).
• Experience enabling change in a high velocity environment.
• Basic knowledge of writing shell scripts, web development and databases is preferred.

Tech stack:

• Cloud: AWS.
• CI/CD: Bitrise, Buildkite.
• Automations: Fastlane, Slack API, Play Store API, Jira API.
• Mobile Crash Observability: Crashlytics + BigQuery.
• Backend: Python.
• Infra: k8s.