[Hiring] Senior Release Engineer @Astronomer
Mar 18, 2025 - Astronomer is hiring a remote Senior Release Engineer. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: India.
Role Description
As a Senior Release Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering software releases and optimizing our release processes. You will work closely with the engineering team to streamline software deployment, enhance CI/CD pipelines, and ensure smooth releases. Your expertise will be critical in maintaining reliability, efficiency, and automation in our release workflows.
- Develop and maintain release deployment pipelines
- Optimize the release process to ensure smooth and efficient deployments
- Manage and enhance CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI and GitHub Actions
- Work with Git to manage branching strategies, resolve conflicts, and enforce best practices
- Automate release tasks using Python and Linux scripting
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to software releases and deployments
- Utilize Docker for containerization, including multi-stage builds for optimizing image sizes
- Coordinate with developers and the QA team for release instructions, versions, release verification tests, and troubleshooting release blockers
- Enhance and enforce security, compliance, and stability in release workflows
- Proactively identify inefficiencies and automate manual processes to enhance release efficiency
- Implement monitoring and rollback strategies for releases to mitigate risks
- Document release processes, best practices, and deployment strategies
Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years of experience in release engineering, DevOps, or a related role
- At least 4 years of proficiency in Python to understand the existing codebase and resolve conflicts during the release process
- At least 2 years of hands-on experience with Docker, including multi-stage builds and optimization techniques
- Strong proficiency in Git, including branching strategies, cherry-picking commits, conflict resolution, and related operations
- Experience working with CI/CD tools such as CircleCI and GitHub Actions
- Knowledge of semantic versioning and best practices for version control
- Expertise in Linux scripting for automation and troubleshooting
- Strong troubleshooting skills for debugging release-related issues
- Strong collaboration and communication skills to work with cross-functional teams
Requirements
- Bonus Points If You Have:
- Experience with Apache Airflow administration and deployment
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration
- Familiarity with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Contributions to open-source projects or experience working with open-source communities
- DevOps experience
Company Description
Astronomer designed Astro, an industry-leading, orchestration-first DataOps platform for data teams. Powered by Airflow, Astro accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and drive data-driven applications.
We’re a globally-distributed and rapidly growing venture-backed team of learners, innovators and collaborators. Our mission is to empower data teams to bring mission-critical analytics, AI, and software to life.
Your background may be unconventional; as long as you have the essential qualifications, we encourage you to apply. While having "bonus" qualifications makes for a strong candidate, Astronomer values diverse experiences.
Many of us at Astronomer haven't followed traditional career paths, and we welcome it if yours hasn't either.
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Salary
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unspecified
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Remote
Location
India
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Mar 18, 2025
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| 📍 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: India |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
