Hiring! Senior Release Engineer

[cjsmith]

Lots of people on my friends list appear to be looking for jobs. Here's the next one, as promised, one position per post for easier linkage.

The environment:
We are a small startup with a generally youngish engineering team. It is a no-foolin' startup job, with some long days and occasional sudden changes of direction, but people really pull together, and when you get something done well you WILL be thanked. That last is rare in this industry.

Also, this is the only company in my twenty-year career that has ever handed me a margarita at my job interview.

We're located in Sunnyvale.


I cut-and-pasted this right out of our internal wiki.

Senior Release Engineer:

Skills
# You know Linux. No seriously, you know Linux. Systems admin tasks do not scare you.
# You can script. PERL, Python, Ruby unimportant. The important thing is you can take a tedious task and reduce it to a script.
# You aren’t afraid of hands on testing. Not because you love tedium but because it gives you a chance to really know the application. That and the fact that you know once you’ve done it a few times you will script the tedium away.
# You have encyclopedic understanding of subversion and enjoy leading developers through its labyrinths.

Qualifications:
# Ability to design, understand, break, develop, and fix code
# Ability to code in at least one modern scripting language Perl, Python, Ruby etc
# Sysadmin level of understanding of Linux
# Strong analytical capabilities
# Passionate commitment to engineering quality and productivity
# Industry experience in release engineering
# Industry experience with a web based Linux product
# Knowledge of Ruby on Rails a plus
# Knowledge of Java ME or J2ME a plus
# Better than excellent, almost inhumanly skilled, I mean Jimmy Carter at Camp David level facility with the English language
# The patience of Job

Responsibilities:
# Own test, build, and release processes
# Automation of test, build and release processes
# Develop automated qualification tests to replace hands on tests
# Own source control (subversion)

Send resumes to me (e-mail to my LJ username at livejournal works great). I can happily pass them along. My company is small - 17 people right now - and we have NO red tape at all!

Comments

[eichin.livejournal.com]

If you find any extras, on the east coast, I want one too :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Excellent! For all I know, East-Coast people reading this will see your comment. [For those people: he means within striking distance of Cambridge, MA.]