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Release Engineer, Google Play

GoogleCambridge, MA, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Cambridge, MA, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience with software configuration management systems or source code version control systems.
  • 2 years of experience in release engineering.
  • 2 years of experience with programming in Python.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience in developer focused product aimed at improving developer productivity.
  • Experience in building and deploying fullstack applications and servers.

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.

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 $122,000-$174,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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

  • Contribute to the software engineering process by writing code, building system configurations, software packages, or performance parameters, and executing test scripts for integration and operations.
  • Oversee the release process, including assembling data on release metrics, overseeing the source code management system, maintaining multiple build environments, and documenting steps relating to the release process.
  • Provide operational support to product and toolchain teams by overseeing the release deployment, isolating problems, identifying areas that need improvement or attention, and reporting solutions back to tool owners.
  • Be part of a team who help build, automate, and visualize release processes and release diagnostic tools across Play.
  • Work with Technical Program Managers, Software Engineers, and SRE’s to design scalable and uniform build and release infrastructure.

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