Release Engineer

At AccelByte, our mission is to empower game creators by providing them with the backend platform and tools required to make scalable, reliable AAA-quality games. The company was founded in 2016 by industry veterans who have engineered online systems for some of the largest game and distribution platforms in the world including Fortnite, Epic Store, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, and EA Origin. We are backed by top investors including Softbank, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Galaxy Interactive, NetEase, and Krafton. Our latest Series B funding has firmly solidified our place as a top player in the gaming industry. AccelByte's talent has decades of experience building and shipping some of the largest game and distribution platforms in the world.

We believe that the best companies empower employees to make decisions, obsess about the best user experience, and are not afraid to make and learn from their mistakes. Our culture is based on humility, openness to feedback, drive, and collaboration, which we feel results in the best performing teams. As a company that values diversity, inclusion, and employee growth, our employees have opportunities to work with and learn from teams all over the world. We offer competitive salaries, a full range of health benefits, social activities, career growth opportunities, and an amazing team. Come join us

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Blackbox is a complex product that involves many moving parts. We are looking for someone who is passionate about enabling developers to do their best work by leveraging tools and automation to improve our build and release process. You will help define and build our end-to-end release process including branch and merge strategies, build creation, management and deployment as well as testing and post-release strategies.

**ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES**:
The Release Engineer is accountable for the following functions and responsibilities:

- Developing and maintaining the automation release process
- Along with the Release Manager, Identify and propagate best release practices and processes.
- Responsible for multiple infrastructure environments
- Maintaining the CI/CD and build release pipelines
- Along with the Release Manager, ensuring released versions are up-to-date and stable
- Perform any other duties as required.

**QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED**
- A desire to create easy to use automated workflows that other developers and non-developers can use
- A relentless focus on improving and refining our entire build and release workflow
- Good knowledge of Git including branching and merging strategies
- Experience with CMake, make files, or other similar build tools
- Experience with Jenkins, Gitlab CI, or similar
- Experience using Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with UE4 plugins
- Experience with slack apps and webhooks for tool integrations