# Release Engineer

**Company:** [Zoox](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zoox)
**Location:** Foster City, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $140k – $190k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Git, CircleCI, Jenkins, Bamboo, Python, AWS, Azure, Bazel, CI/CD, Scripting
**Posted:** 2026-06-01

> As a Release Engineer, you will orchestrate software releases for autonomous vehicle technology, ensuring secure and streamlined delivery from development to production. This role involves managing simulation tools and autonomy software releases, coordinating vehicle-level testing, and scaling automation systems.

## Job Description

## In this role, you will:

*   **Secure Delivery Orchestration:** Maintaining safe continuous delivery by bridging the gap between integration, quality assurance, and software engineering.
*   **Release Oversight:** Managing the release of simulation tools and autonomy software, which involves regression analysis and vehicle-level testing coordination.
*   **Cross-Functional Alignment:** Securing formal approvals from stakeholders to confirm that all releases are production-ready.
*   Define and track readiness indicators to ensure every release adheres to established safety and performance standards.
*   Scale and refine automation systems to decrease manual effort and optimize deployment workflows.

## Qualifications:

*   3-5 years of experience working as a release/ build engineer and managing releases for large, complex products
*   Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in engineering or equivalent experience
*   Familiarity of source control (Git), branch management, and conflict resolution
*   Experience with CI/CD, including build and deploying tools like CircleCI, Jenkins, and Bamboo
*   Programming experience, including Python or other scripting languages.
*   Ability to learn custom tooling quickly
*   Experience automating software releases
*   Excellent communication skills and ability to quickly adapt to changes

## Bonus Qualifications:

*   Knowledge of cloud platforms(e.g., AWS, Azure)
*   Experience handling large data sets
*   Bazel experiences a plus.

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