Senior Release Engineer, Quality Engineering

Redditposted 17 days ago

$190,800 - $267,100/Yr

Full-time • Mid Level

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About the position

Reddit's Quality Engineering (QE) team is looking for a Senior Release Engineer who can work in a highly collaborative environment, conduct production and internal beta releases, make release readiness decisions, assess risks to users and actively drive measures to mitigate them.

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, Design and Release teams
Help build and maintain release and developer productivity dashboards
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

6+ 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
2+ years of development experience building web dashboards for internal metric tracking
Experience working with Python, java or a similar web development language
Basic knowledge of writing shell scripts, web development and databases is preferred
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