Software Engineer, Build and Release

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

In this role, you will be helping build our Release Engineering team from the ground up! The charter for this role is broad but your core responsibility is to make sure our releases are fast, highly reliable and delight our customers.

You will be in charge of many aspects of the release process and tooling. This may include 

• Creating and maintaining release automation pipelines.
• Building git, CI/CD, and Slack scripts, tooling, bots, and dashboards to help manage multiple in-flight releases.
• As we are a multi-tenant SaaS platform, performance and backwards compatibility are important aspects to preserve as we release new features and functionality. 
• As we are going through a hyper growth cycle, we’ll want to explore strategies like automated canary deployments and analysis, helping Retool move fast with high quality.
• Since we also offer our product for on-prem deployment to our customers, you will be a key stakeholder in designing and implementing a safe and smooth new software release and distribution process.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

• Help build a great product that improves productivity of engineers across the globe by several orders of magnitude.
• Define best practices for releasing both SaaS and On-Prem products.
• Troubleshoot and help diagnose product defects, quality issues, observability gaps and how they relate to manage risk and ensure successful releases.
• Work collaboratively with product engineering teams to improve quality assurance standards via End-to-End tests and other test automation strategies.
• Our north star is to ensure successful deployment of our software releases to our customers on-demand (i.e. multiple deploys per day).

THE SKILLSET YOU'LL BRING: 

• 4 years of related professional experience, with 2 years in a lead role
• Solid experience in building release automation and tooling 
• Familiarity with release frameworks and tools such as git, GitHub, Buildkite, CI/CD tooling, fastlane
• Comfortable being a hands on individual contributor, while simultaneously helping hire and scale the team
• Strong programming experience with any major programming language
• Have significant experience and willingness to work with other teams such as fellow engineers, product managers, deployed engineers, support, quality teams etc.
• Drive cross functional teams towards concrete and shared release goals and outcomes
• A passion for learning, especially through looking at new processes and tools that have significant impact on engineering teams
• Excellent communication skills
• Highly analytical and metrics-oriented
• Detail oriented

BONUS POINTS:

• NodeJS/JavaScript/TypeScript experience
• Familiarity with React, React Native frontend web and mobile application development
• Experience with test automation and tools/frameworks like Cypress/Playwright/Selenium, Unit test frameworks like Jest etc..