Senior Release Engineer, Quality Engineering

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

Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Benefits and Income Replacement Programs
• 401k Match
• Family Planning Support
• Gender-Affirming Care
• Mental Health & Coaching Benefits
• Flexible Vacation & Reddit Global Days off
• Generous paid Parental Leave
• Paid Volunteer time off