Careers in Release/Build Engineering

San Francisco-based Cloud start-up – Release Engineer

Published on June 7, 2011 in Release/Build Engineering. Closed

I am working with a start-up based in San Francisco, funded by a few of the Bay Areas more prolific VC’s. They are bringing a potentially game changing technology to the Cloud. Think of it as a Cloud- based domain controller.

We are looking for a Release Engineer. The right person has:

General Requirements:

  • Extensive experience designing and implementing branch and merge strategies for fast-pased agile engineering teams.
  • Understand how engineering teams work and proven ability to build systems that support them.
  • Must be very organized, very logical and frankly, anal-retentive.
  • You should be the most fastidious person on the team.

Specific Technologies:

  • Experience with Git including writing scripts that call the Git apis to automate common tasks.
  • Experience automating and managing java builds. Ant experience is a must.
  • Experience with Confluence and Jira.
  • Experience with Hudson or similar CI system

We are leaders in the area of Bay Area technology recruiting. Our expertise includes Systems (Security, Networking and Infrastructure).

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Sr Software Build Engineer – Linux/Debian Distribution – Palo Alto, CA

Published on October 19, 2010 in Release/Build Engineering and Software Engineering - Infrastructure - Network/Security/Storage. Closed

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I am working with a Palo Alto-based stealth-mode start-up in the area of virtualized networking. They believe they are sitting on a “once in a decade” type opportunity to make significant improvements in the networking infrastructure and are backed by a list of highly-recognized industry leaders who agree.

We are looking for a Sr Software Build Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and improve the automated build systems for Nicira products to accommodate the changing requirements of the software, incorporate new functionality, and improve reporting.
  • Create a virtual appliance build process capable of producing consistent and repeatable appliance images containing the base operating system and software.
  • Manage the security of the virtual appliance operation system base, monitoring security mailing lists, updating affected software incorporated in the appliance as required and developing security fixes if required.
  • Work closely with upstream open source projects to adopt changes made in the course of work.
  • Package software dependencies of products.

Requirements

Must Have

  • Extensive knowledge of GNU make and autotools build tools
  • Experience packaging Linux appliances using either apt (e.g. Debian/Ubuntu) or RPM (e.g. RedHat)
  • Experience with build automation and reporting
  • Linux system administration
  • Strong open source community relationship and ability to successfully contribute fixes and improvements to upstream open source projects

Nice to have

  • Experience with virtualization systems/hypervisors
  • Security analysis and patching for appliance systems
  • Strong Python scripting

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