Staff Release Engineer - Deployment Systems

ZipLine; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

ZipLine seeks a Staff Release Engineer to drive innovation in deployment systems and processes within a dynamic tech environment. This role involves developing robust deployment strategies and collaborating across teams to enhance the overall deployment philosophy, ensuring reliable software rollouts. Join us to shape the future of autonomous delivery while benefiting from competitive salaries and a supportive team culture.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Benefits including medical, dental, and vision

Paid time off

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and deployment in high-reliability environments.
• Proven ability in designing complex deployment systems.
• Excellent communication skills for team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance deployment strategies using Kubernetes.
• Lead innovations in deployment strategy and manage deployment pipelines.
• Monitor and optimize release systems, establishing rollback strategies.

Skills

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring tools

Collaboration

Education

Experience in release engineering

Tools

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Staff Release Engineer - Deployment Systems

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About Zipline Do you want to change the world? Zipline is on a mission to transform the way goods move. Our aim is to solve the world’s most urgent and complex access challenges by building, manufacturing and operating the first instant delivery and logistics system that serves all humans equally, wherever they are. From powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to providing on-demand home delivery for Walmart, to enabling healthcare providers to bring care directly to U.S. homes, we are transforming the way things move for businesses, governments and consumers. The technology is complex but the idea is simple: a teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it. Through our technology that includes robotics and autonomy, we are decarbonizing delivery, decreasing road congestion, and reducing fossil fuel consumption and air pollution, while providing equitable access to billions of people and building a more resilient global supply chain. Join Zipline and help us to make good on our promise to build an equitable and more resilient global supply chain for billions of people. 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.

Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies. We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

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