Rust Release Engineer — Flexible Freelance Schedule

Energy Innovation Corp; Hillsboro (OR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Innovation Corp is seeking a Release Engineer in Hillsboro, OR who focuses on Rust ownership and shipping robust software. The role emphasizes what 4 years of Rust enables at Tesla, including cleanups of TypeScript stacks and strong GitHub Actions practices.

Expect collaboration across teams, empathy-driven decision making, and a competitive compensation range aligned with Hillsboro’s market for senior release engineers.

Qualifications

• Clear, tidy documentation and strong judgment when timelines collide.
• Ability to translate requirements into workable, transparent tradeoffs.
• Empathy in giving and receiving feedback in cross-functional teams.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions and automation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Pull Tesla's TypeScript stack out of the OR region before the migration deadline.
• Tidy up legacy GitHub Actions modules and improve maintainability.
• Negotiate empathy tradeoffs with product when timelines and reality collide.
• Translate accountability outages into fixes for future Hillsboro launches.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to scope and deliver freelance projects.
• Read stack traces and trace bugs to root cause in GitHub Actions.
• Push GitHub Actions changes behind flags to enable quick Hillsboro, OR rollbacks.

Skills

Documentation

Accountability

Empathy

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Best practices

Clear communication

Tools

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Job description

Energy Innovation Corp is seeking a Release Engineer in Hillsboro, OR who focuses on Rust ownership and shipping robust software. The role emphasizes what 4 years of Rust enables at Tesla, including cleanups of TypeScript stacks and strong GitHub Actions practices.

Expect collaboration across teams, empathy-driven decision making, and a competitive compensation range aligned with Hillsboro’s market for senior release engineers.