Release Engineer
Millennium Management
Millennium is seeking a Release Engineer to join a dynamic global team. This Release Engineer will be responsible for supporting the Release Control process for Fixed Income and Commodities Technology.
In this role, you work closely with business stakeholders and across developer teams within the Fixed Income, Commodities, Credit, Rates, and FX business at Millennium to ensure release stability.
Responsibilities
Proactive release management:
Spearhead robust release process with proper auditing, testing, and documentation
Gatekeep releases and coordinate cross-team releases to maximize production stability
Validate regression and integration testing results for staged releases
Evaluate upcoming releases for upstream and downstream impact
Create formal rollback plans for new releases
Coordinate cross-team dependencies for forthcoming release
Define and prioritize business objectives in the BOW and upcoming release roadmap
Set and meet delivery timelines
Track progress towards high-level goals, and identify and resolve blockers
Communicate release contents effectively with stakeholders, including Portfolio Managers
Incident management and analysis
Actively participate in triaging ongoing incidents
Provide advice and guidance for root cause analysis
Utilize observability tools to quickly zero in on active issue
According to RCA, improve regression and integration test suites to prevent reoccurrence
Drive weekly meetings to evaluate problems, RCAs, and test-gap
Stay in touch with external teams to ensure that upstream issues are resolved
High level system design
Work on high-level system design and flow
Standardize and enforce cross-stack observability, including traces, metrics, alerts and logging
Develop deep understanding of system flow and microservice interaction
Iterate over Release Control process to ensure maximum production stability and stakeholder buy-in
Quality Assurance
Supervise QA Engineers in building and maintaining regression and integration testing suites
Ensure integration environment remains stable and healthy across applications
Review test-reports for staged releases
Provide go / no go guidance for sensitive releases based on test coverage, dependencies, and upstream / downstream effects
Required qualifications
3+ years of hands-on experience in large-scale distributed system, complex software design, high scalability and availability, optimization, observability
Excellent communication and prioritization skills
Strong analytical problem solving and decision-making skills
Profound understanding of design patterns, data structures and algorithms
Proven skills in performance tuning, monitoring and measuring
Experience with automation and building robust processes / pipelines
A degree in Computer Science (preferred) or related engineering field
Preferred qualifications
Working with cloud technologies, Kubernetes and Istio a strong plus
Experience with related open source technologies such as gRPC, Protobuf, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, Postgres etc. is a plus
Experience with Java is a strong plus
Functional experience with JavaScript, Typescript, Python, Angular, Node, or React is a plus
Experience with Playwright, Selenium, or Ranorex for end-to-end testing is a plus
Familiarity with Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitHub
Experience “owning” release process for an application or organization is a strong plus