Google: Release Engineer - Seattle/Kirkland

Release Engineer - Seattle/Kirkland

This position is available at the Seattle Engineering Center located in Kirkland, WA.

Would you like to be part of one of Google's key software development efforts?
This is your opportunity to use your deep technical interest and your skill at understanding complex systems. In this position you will be a member of the team that implements and executes the release process for our products. You will support Google software development teams by reviewing new and changed code, tracking and auditing change histories, debugging build and runtime problems, and maintaining a build process to support ongoing R&D and regression and user/system level tests. As a Release Engineer you will have primary responsibility for updating release branches in our source control system, building and testing release binaries, and pushing releases to production. You will design and document improvements to the scalable, automated integration, build, test and release processes.


Requirements:
BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or other technical field.
5+ years experience in software engineering, release engineering, and/or configuration management.
Strong familiarity with software configuration management systems and/or source code version control systems. Perforce experience highly desired.
Extensive knowledge of Windows and Unix/Linux platforms. Familiarity with Mac OSX a plus.
Skills with one or more scripting languages. Python experience highly desired.
Experience with build management tools (make, scons, ant).
Experience building C++ and Java applications.
Ability to work well with developers, test engineers, and non-engineering personnel.
Strong organizational and communication skills, both verbal and written.
For immediate consideration, please apply HERE.

About Google:
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