Role Summary :
We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented SRE Release Engineer to lead and streamline the CI/CD pipeline for our C and Python codebase. You will be responsible for coordinating, automating, and validating biweekly production releases, ensuring operational stability, high deployment velocity, and system reliability.
Key Responsibilities :
● Own the release process: Plan, coordinate, and execute biweekly software releases across multiple services.
● Automate release pipelines: Build and maintain CI/CD workflows using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
● Version control: Manage and enforce Git best practices, branching strategies (e.g., Git Flow), tagging, and release versioning.
● Integrate testing frameworks: Ensure automated test coverage (unit, integration, regression) is enforced pre-release.
● Release validation: Develop pre-release verification tools/scripts to validate build integrity and backward compatibility.
● Deployment strategy: Implement and refine blue/green, rolling, or canary deployments in staging and production environments.
● Incident readiness: Partner with SREs to ensure rollback strategies, monitoring, and alerting are release-aware.
● Collaboration: Work closely with developers, QA, and product teams to align on release timelines and feature readiness.
Required Qualifications
● Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. ● 3+ years in SRE, DevOps, or release engineering roles.
● Proficiency in CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab).
● Experience automating deployments for C and Python applications.
● Strong understanding of Git version control, merge/rebase strategies, tagging, and submodules (if used).
● Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and deployment orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, Ansible, or Terraform).
● Solid scripting experience (Python, Bash, or similar). ● Understanding of observability, monitoring, and incident response tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Sentry).
Preferred Skills
● Experience with release coordination in data networking environments ● Familiarity with build tools like Make, CMake, or Bazel.
● Exposure to artifact management systems (e.g., Artifactory, Nexus).
● Experience deploying to Linux production systems with service uptime guarantees.