Senior Release Engineer, Google Play

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in releasing engineering.
• 5 years of experience with programming in Java, Python, or C .
• 5 years of experience with software configuration management systems or source code version control systems.
• Experience with release management tools and methodologies (e.g., Jira, Jenkins, Git).

Preferred qualifications:

• 4 years of experience with mobile/web development, release management, including QA testing, sprint management, bug triaging, etc.
• Ability to influence and communicate cross-functionally.
• Ability to handle ambiguity, and to work collaboratively with internal and partner contacts.
• Ability to analyze tasks, work independently, and drive projects to completion in a fast-paced, delivery focused environment as an enthusiastic team player.

About the job

How do you release updates and changes to the world's most trafficked sites without users ever noticing a glitch in service? Our Release Engineering team takes on this very challenge. As a member of the team, you work with Software Engineers to ensure our services and products seamlessly move from development through rollout and into production. This requires scripting and coding with an eye toward scalability so that big deployments can be broken down and distributed across multiple data centers. You are a excited by massively complex systems and the challenges that come from working with some of the largest computing systems in the world. From changing the look of Google Search to backend tweaks to our algorithms, we are constantly pushing updates and iterating on all of our products.

Using your leadership and technical expertise, you manage small project teams and lead the complex application releases for production and develop major improvement to tools and processes.

As a Senior Release Engineer in Google Play, you will help build tools and infrastructure needed for automating releases and improve release velocity across Google Play. You will also help design and enhance release management and troubleshooting tools. You will work closely with Software Engineering, Engineering Productivity, Site Reliability Engineers, and Technical Program Managers on onboarding of new binaries into release process, to ensure that what we release to production follows best practices while keeping our release infrastructure reliable, scalable, and simple. You will work on releases across various surfaces and form factors, and the most exciting Google Play infrastructure.

Google Play offers music, movies, books, apps and games for devices, powered by the cloud. It syncs across devices and on the web. As part of the Android and Mobile team, Googlers working on Google Play do everything from engineering our backend systems, to shaping product strategy, to forming great content partnerships. They make it possible for people to do things like buy an ebook or song on their Android phone, then have it instantly available on their laptop. The Google Play team enhances the Android ecosystem by giving developers and partners a premium store where they can reach millions of users.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $139,000-$207,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities

• Build, scale, automate, and secure our software build and deployment infrastructure. Increase development velocity through automation of processes such as branching, merging, versioning, tagging, and release cutting.
• Design highly reliable, redundant and fault tolerant software delivery pipelines for multiple releases at various intervals.
• Work closely with developers, Technical Program Managers, and cross-functional teams, liaising with toolchain owners, to optimize binary performance, and to standardize release and configuration management.
• Develop new tools, and features for existing tools, in the build and release toolchain.
• Provide guidance on designing release processes to fit technical and administrative requirements and then integrate those changes into reusable and scalable standards.