Builds And Release Engineer, Silicon Software

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 2 years of experience with release engineering in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.

• 2 years of experience with software configuration management systems or source code version control systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with Python, Bash, and Java or C/C++.

• Understanding of artifacts and software components needed to support hardware.

• Understanding of kernel driver development and associated artifacts.

• Familiarity with workflows and tools for building in Google3 and Android.

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in software engineering, release engineering and/or configuration management.

• Proficiency in SDLC.

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.

The Silicon Software team builds firmware, drivers, runtime, and compilers to bring our custom hardware to life. We are still a young team and are planning for rapid growth in both team size and our code base. We work cross functionally with many teams at Google, including Research, Machine Learning, Android, Chrome, and Hardware. We are working generations ahead of the market to enable groundbreaking features.

We are productive while we're at work but value work/life balance and have flexible schedules. Being tied to hardware release cycles, we do have crunch time -- however, we strive to complete our tasks within regular working hours.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. We aim to make people's lives better through technology.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $117,000-$172,000 + 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.

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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, TPMs & 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 & release toolchain.

• Provide guidance on designing release processes to fit technical and administrative requirements and then integrate those changes into reusable and scalable standards.

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