Release Engineer | Consumer Devices

Details

The Release Engineer team builds and maintains the systems that power software delivery, including CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, release automation, and fleet telemetry. The team ensures software across bootloaders, firmware, operating systems, and cloud services is built reproducibly, validated rigorously, and released safely at scale.

As a Release Engineer, you will design, build, and operate release infrastructure for reliable, secure, and traceable software delivery across complex, multi-component systems. You will work closely with embedded, cloud, and QA teams to ensure builds—from development through over-the-air deployment—are fast, verifiable, and production-ready.

This role is based in San Francisco, California, and follows a hybrid work model with four days in the office per week.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate CI/CD pipelines for multi-component builds, including bootloaders, firmware, operating system images, backend services, and companion applications, using hermetic toolchains.
• Define versioning and branching strategies.
• Automate promotions, changelogs, and artifact retention.
• Integrate unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop test results.
• Quarantine flaky tests, automatically bisect failures, and block unsafe promotions.
• Build A/B over-the-air update flows with verity and health checks.
• Run staged rollouts and canaries.
• Implement safe rollback and roll-forward strategies.
• Implement code signing for binaries and firmware.
• Generate software bills of materials, run vulnerability scanning, and attach build attestations and provenance.
• Manage dashboards and alerts for build health, promotion latency, failure rates, and fleet update telemetry.

Requirements

• Experience building and operating build and release systems for consumer devices, robotics, mobile, or embedded products.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation languages such as Python or Bash.
• Strong Linux user-space fundamentals.
• Experience with GitHub Actions or Buildkite, artifact registries, and reproducible toolchains.
• Experience managing vendor board support packages and toolchains.
• Experience delivering secure OTA or image updates with staged rollouts at scale.
• Familiarity with key management and supply-chain hardening.
• A track record of metrics-driven improvement and continuous optimization.

Benefits

• Base salary of $293,000–$325,000 per year, plus equity and performance-related bonuses for eligible employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax accounts for health, dependent care, and commuter expenses.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off, paid company holidays, office closures, and sick or safe time.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily office meals and eligible meal delivery credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional benefits may include charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.