Release Engineer: High-Throughput Systems with Kafka & Ansible

Egreenservices; Medford (OR); On-site; USD 60,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Coaching

Healthcare coverage

Flexible setup

Job summary

HealthFirst Medical Group in Medford is seeking a junior Release Engineer to help scale our backend systems under heavy load. You will translate business requirements into technical specs and ensure Scrum guardrails align with compliance rules.

You will work with Ansible and Kafka to optimize initiative dashboards, tune databases, and participate in on-call rotations and postmortems. Authorization to work in the United States is required.

Qualifications

• 1+ years in a Release Engineer role or similar
• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
• Experience with Ansible and knowledge of Kafka and Scrum
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical specs

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into technical specifications
• Bake Scrum guardrails from compliance rules
• Build initiative dashboards to reduce manual number requests
• Explain Kafka tradeoffs to HealthFirst Medical Group execs
• Pair Stakeholder Management with Scrum in a scalable pipeline
• Tune database queries for high-throughput HealthFirst Medical Group workloads
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Agile and Kafka
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems

Skills

Storytelling with data

Ownership mindset

Task ownership

Stakeholder management

Scrum experience

Tools

Ansible

Kafka

Selenium

Databases

Job description

HealthFirst Medical Group in Medford is seeking a junior Release Engineer to help scale our backend systems under heavy load. You will translate business requirements into technical specs and ensure Scrum guardrails align with compliance rules.

You will work with Ansible and Kafka to optimize initiative dashboards, tune databases, and participate in on-call rotations and postmortems. Authorization to work in the United States is required.