Principal Release Engineer
We are looking for a Principal Release Engineer to join Fastly's Release Engineering team. The Release Engineer is responsible for the set-up, maintenance and ongoing development of continuous build / integration and deployment infrastructure. In this role you will create and maintain fully automated CI build processes for multiple environments, including our global edge cache fleet, internal applications, and applications hosted in AWS and GCP. The ideal candidate will care deeply about providing other engineers with a seamless release experience, and have a deep understanding of what engineers care about, how they ship code, and what world-class delivery infrastructure looks like.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate release tooling across building, packaging, signing, artifact management, and deploying software.
- Drive initiatives that make our engineers happier and more productive by reducing lead time for changes.
- Collaborate with development and SRE teams to develop policies, standards, guidelines, governance and related guidance for CI/D operations.
- Support developers from with build automation, merge resolution, CI, test automation, deployment based on tools usage and policies, standards.
- Troubleshoot issues along the CI/D pipeline.
- Participate in on-call support rotation
What we're looking for
- 10+ years of experience
- Ability to excel within an "Agile" environment (i.e. user stories, sprints, iterative development, continuous integration, continuous delivery, shared ownership, test-driven development, etc.) .
- Deep expertise in at least one of the following languages: Ruby, Python, Go.
- Expertise with automation tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Dagger.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks such as Chef, Terraform, Ansible, etc
- Varnish, Nginx or other cache and proxy servers
- Knowledge of source code control management systems and configuration management (i.e. Git, GitHub, etc) and code branching/merging strategies
- Experience with Linux and containerization, particularly with Docker & orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
- Experience with a Cloud-based environment, particularly AWS and/or GCP. Both would be ideal!
- Good understanding of quality control and test automation in agile-based continuous integration environments
- Experience with Omnibus and/or Debian packaging
- Experience with artifact repositories such as Artifactory or Sonatype Nexus
- Some experience with SQL and relational databases administration (i.e. Oracle, MySQL)
- Open source license tracking, auditing and reporting
Work Hours:
- This position will require you to be available during core business hours and occasional nights and weekends as needed for on call support
Benefits:
We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings?
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to meet your needs. Our offerings may vary depending on the country where you work and are subject to change.