• 4+ years of related professional experience, with 2+ years in a lead role
• Solid experience in building release automation and tooling
• Familiarity with release frameworks and tools such as git, GitHub, Buildkite, CI/CD tooling, fastlane
• Comfortable being a hands on individual contributor, while simultaneously helping hire and scale the team
• Strong programming experience with any major programming language
• Have significant experience and willingness to work with other teams such as fellow engineers, product managers, deployed engineers, support, quality teams etc
• Drive cross functional teams towards concrete and shared release goals and outcomes
• A passion for learning, especially through looking at new processes and tools that have significant impact on engineering teams
• Excellent communication skills
• Highly analytical and metrics-oriented
• Detail oriented

Desirable

• You will be in charge of many aspects of the release process and tooling. This may include:
• Creating and maintaining release automation pipelines
• Building git, CI/CD, and Slack scripts, tooling, bots, and dashboards to help manage multiple in-flight releases
• As we are a multi-tenant SaaS platform, performance and backwards compatibility are important aspects to preserve as we release new features and functionality
• As we are going through a hyper growth cycle, we’ll want to explore strategies like automated canary deployments and analysis, helping Retool move fast with high quality
• Since we also offer our product for on-prem deployment to our customers, you will be a key stakeholder in designing and implementing a safe and smooth new software release and distribution process
• Help build a great product that improves productivity of engineers across the globe by several orders of magnitude
• Define best practices for releasing both SaaS and On-Prem products
• Troubleshoot and help diagnose product defects, quality issues, observability gaps and how they relate to manage risk and ensure successful releases
• Work collaboratively with product engineering teams to improve quality assurance standards via End-to-End tests and other test automation strategies
• Our north star is to ensure successful deployment of our software releases to our customers on-demand (i.e. multiple deploys per day)