Staff Release Engineer - Deployment Systems
Zipline
About Zipline
About the Role
As a Staff Release Engineer at Zipline, you will play a crucial role in upgrading our deployment systems as we transition our software deployment into segregated Kubernetes clusters in the cloud. This role is essential for developing new systems and processes to ensure reliable software rollouts across increasingly complex changes and environments.
What You'll Do
- Develop and Enhance Deployment Systems: Design and implement robust deployment strategies that ensure high reliability and stability in our software releases. Work with tools like Kubernetes and Argo to manage the deployment lifecycle across multiple environments and namespaces.
- Lead Deployment Strategy Innovations: Spearhead initiatives to improve environment propagation and rollout mechanisms, drawing on proposals and current best practices within the industry to enhance our deployment philosophy.
- Manage Deployment Pipelines: Create and manage pipelines for phased mutations of Kubernetes objects and infrastructure that represent services, ensuring deployments meet all testing and stability prerequisites before promotion to production environments.
- Coordinate Across Teams: Work closely with other engineering teams to ensure that deployment strategies are aligned with the overall technical architecture and company objectives. Ensure clean slate deployments through effective coordination strategies akin to merge queues.
- Monitor and Optimize Release Systems: Implement and oversee monitoring tools such as Prometheus for continuous deployment assessments. Support developing comprehensive readiness and liveness probes for services to ensure operational integrity post-deployment.
- Deployment Gating and Rollbacks: Establish and manage deployment gates based on integration, smoke, and unit tests. Develop rollback strategies for deployments that do not meet specified criteria, ensuring minimal impact on ongoing operations.
What You'll Bring
- Extensive experience in release engineering, with a deep understanding of Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-based deployment strategies.
- Proven ability to design and implement complex deployment systems in a high-reliability environment.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills to effectively work across multiple teams.
- Experience with monitoring tools (like prometheus, open telemetry) and deployment gating mechanisms.
Why Join Us?
At Zipline, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of autonomous delivery and impact the lives of billions worldwide. We offer a supportive team environment, competitive salaries, and benefits, as well as the unique challenge of solving global problems with cutting-edge technology.
Zipline is committed to diversity and inclusion and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. If there are any accommodations you need during the application process, please let us know.
What Else You Need to Know
The starting cash range for this role is $170,000 - $210,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact. The total compensation package for this role may also include: equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives; benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more.
