Release Engineer Jobs in California

POSITION: Software Engineer – Build & Release

Who We Are:

Quest Global delivers world-class end-to-end engineering solutions by leveraging our deep industry knowledge and digital expertise. By bringing together technologies and industries, alongside the contributions of diverse individuals and their areas of expertise, we are able to solve problems better, faster. This multi-dimensional approach enables us to solve the most critical and large-scale challenges across the aerospace & defense, automotive, energy, hi-tech, healthcare, medical devices, rail and semiconductor industries.

We are looking for humble geniuses, who believe that engineering has the potential to make the impossible possible; innovators, who are not only inspired by technology and innovation, but also perpetually driven to design, develop, and test as a trusted partner for Fortune 500 customers. As a team of remarkably diverse engineers, we recognize that what we are really engineering is a brighter future for us all. If you want to contribute to meaningful work and be part of an organization that truly believes when you win, we all win, and when you fail, we all learn, then we’re eager to hear from you. The achievers and courageous challenge-crushers we seek, have the following characteristics and skills

What You will Do:

• Own the build promotion cadence across distributed capability teams (Demand, Supply, Data pipelines etc), moderating handoffs so promotions don't collide.
• Actively resolve multi project conflicts: when two teams need conflicting code versions or configurations in major releases at the same time, decide and communicate how that gets resolved (time slots,feature flag isolation, sequencing).
• Own the environment during major blockers or outages: drive fast alignment across teams and make the final call on fix forward versus rollback.
• Collaborate with dev teams to define and maintain accountability mapping for every critical R9 service: owner, backup owner, escalation path, and contact point.
• Work with E2E and SRE to define and enforce build promotion criteria, validation requirements, and exception handling for changes entering R9.
• Support rollout of safe deployment practices (canary or blue green) as they're piloted and expanded across R9 services.
• Track and report on major release health KPIs (deployment failure rate, mean time to identify, mean time to fix, P1 SLA compliance) and surface trends to engineering and leadership.
• Partner with capability teams to close configuration, dependency, and feature flag gaps that create recurring instability.
• Monitor the smoke tests and perform initial bug triage using existing tools and involve the right dev partners as needed for resolving the bugs.

What You Will Bring:

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in release engineering, build and deployment pipelines, or environment/release management, ideally in a shared, multi team environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You'll be coordinating across teams that don't report to you, running incident calls, and writing promotion/rollback criteria that other teams need to follow without ambiguity.
• Comfort making a decision under pressure (fix forward vs. rollback) and owning the outcome, rather than escalating every call.
• Experience with CI/CD concepts, build promotion gates, and rollback or fix forward processes.
• Ability to work independently across ambiguous, cross team problems without a fixed playbook already in place.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash/Shell scripting
• Strong Git workflow expertise (branching, PRs, merge strategies)
• Hands-on Jenkins (or equivalent CI/CD) pipeline experience
• Unix/Linux systems experience and debugging skills

Nice to Have:

• Containerization (Docker) and basic Kubernetes
• Observability tooling (Grafana/Prometheus/Splunk)Familiarity with canary or blue green deployment strategies.
• Experience with incident management processes (triage, severity levels, escalation paths).
• Background working with or alongside SRE teams on monitoring, alerting, or health checks.
• Exposure to advertising or ad delivery systems is a plus, not required.

Pay Range: $100,000-$115,000 per annum

Compensation decisions are made based on factors including experience, skills, education, and other job-related factors, in accordance with our internal pay structure. We also offer a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, paid time off, and retirement plan.

Work Requirements:

This role is considered an on-site position located in Cupertino, CA, USA OR San Diego, CA, USA

• You must be able to commute to and from the location with your own transportation arrangements to meet the required working hours.
• Shop floor environment, which may include but not limited to extensive walking, and ability to lift up to 40 lbs.

Benefits begin on day one:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Employer paid Life Insurance, Short- & Long-Term Disability