Release Engineer

Walgreens; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 114,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Walgreens is hiring a Release Engineer to design, build, and ship software that serves millions of users every day. The role emphasizes ownership of the process and the chance to work with Elasticsearch and MongoDB within a Washington, DC–based internship cadence.

The open position highlights a strong culture of mentorship, real benefits, and schedules that bend toward family, with an offer in the $114,000–$156,000 range.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience backing your own estimates.
• Unit testing fundamentals and REST API polish.
• Comfort owning the unglamorous middle of an internship project.

Responsibilities

• Ship Elasticsearch experiments fast, kill the losers, and double down on what sticks.
• Sketch MongoDB sequence diagrams that make the technology flow obvious to everyone.
• Maintain and improve CI/CD infrastructure across DC engineering teams.
• Reproduce the performance-driven bug from the Washington field report, then make it impossible again.
• Decode the undocumented Unit Testing service nobody at Walgreens remembers writing.

Skills

CI/CD ownership

Unit testing fundamentals

REST API familiarity

Estimating work

Tools

Elasticsearch

MongoDB

Job description

Walgreens is hiring a Release Engineer to design, build, and ship software that serves millions of users every day. Honestly, the draw is the ownership: $114,000 - $156,000 and internship hours come standard, but the technology reins are the real prize.

Key Responsibilities

• Ship Elasticsearch experiments fast, kill the losers, and double down on what sticks
• Sketch MongoDB sequence diagrams that make the technology flow obvious to everyone
• Maintain and improve CI/CD infrastructure across DC engineering teams
• Reproduce the performance-driven bug from the Washington field report, then make it impossible again
• Decode the undocumented Unit Testing service nobody at Walgreens remembers writing

What You'll Bring

• Comfort owning the unglamorous middle of an internship project
• Comfort with the internship cadence of a Washington-based operation
• At least 4 years of standing behind your own estimates
• Unit Testing fundamentals plus the REST API polish clients notice

Since day one, Walgreens has been on a high-trust mission to reshape technology from its base in Washington, DC. We move fast on Elasticsearch but slow down whenever someone says they feel rushed past good judgment.

What sits behind the $114,000 - $156,000 offer is a Walgreens culture built on real mentorship, generous benefits, and schedules that bend toward family.

This posting reflects an open need we are working to close this quarter.