Senior Release Engineer

Summary of Role

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Puppet is looking for a Senior Release Engineer to help develop, maintain, and improve our software release lifecycle. As a Senior Release Engineer you will work closely with development, operations, marketing, and sales to maintain product integrity and ship the bits on time. You will make significant decisions about the design and implementation of software delivery pipelines and processes. If you care about how software gets built, distributed, and installed then this is the job for you!

Qualifications

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• You are a lifelong learner who collects new skills
• You care deeply about the experience and satisfaction of users (internal and external)
• You are proficient in the use of at least one interpreted language (like Ruby, Python, or Perl)
• You’ve authored tools to automate building, testing, delivery of software
• You are motivated by a strong desire to build tools that other people will use
• You are proficient in the use of Windows, Linux, or Mac command line tools to get work done
• You have a solid understanding of popular version control systems (like Git or Mercurial)
• You have developed software on Linux systems.
• You have some experience with packaging formats like rpm or dpkg

Bonus points will be awarded for

• You have experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery methodologies and tools
• You have experience with delivering and maintaining SaaS systems
• You have some experience with compiled language like C, Go, or Rust
• You can have a complete conversation with only animated gifs
• You’re not afraid to use shell scripting in anger
• You’ve maintained or contributed to packages for a linux distribution

Application Instructions

Submit your application online. Please include a cover letter that describes why you’re interested in working for Puppet and summarize how your experience and career goals fit the qualifications for the position. Also, describe a time you had to quickly come up to speed on a new skill or technology, how you did it, and the outcome. Lastly, include an example of having to consider end-users’ point of view when making a technology decision.

Working for Puppet

Puppet is leading the movement that will define the next decade of software.

Today it’s characterized by the general realization that for companies to remain relevant, they have to constantly provide great software to their users.

Tomorrow it’s defined by a world of frictionless software change – where any company can deliver a better experience to their users, at any moment.

We’re building a world of unconstrained software change. Where the software that powers everything around us is always available, is constantly modern, and accessible from anywhere

The company is growing fast and we’re determined for everyone here to have a real impact on the company and our customers every day. We’re driven and restless. We encourage creativity and collaboration. By challenging each other, we foster continuous improvement. That’s why we hire carefully for passion, self-motivation, intelligence, curiosity, and adaptability.

Puppet offers excellent health benefits for employees and family, a flexible time-off policy (that we do insist you use), and a variety of methods to grow your skills and further your career. We have employees all around the US, the UK, Sweden, Canada, the Czech Republic and Australia. Our headquarters in downtown Portland, Oregon, is one block off Tom McCall Waterfront Park with​ views of Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens and the Willamette River.

More than 30,000 companies — including more than two thirds of the Fortune 100 — use Puppet’s open source and commercial solutions to achieve situational awareness and drive software change with confidence. We power companies including Twitter, Yelp, Disney, Google, Citrix, eBay, NYSE, Cisco WebEx, Salesforce, Bank of America and PayPal.

Our investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, VMware, Google Ventures, Cisco, True Ventures, Radar Partners, and Emerson Street Partners.

Puppet is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, ancestry, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are limited in the ability or unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, you may contact +1-877-575-9775 for assistance.

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