Release Engineer - Salesforce.org

Job description

Everyone who wants to change the world should have the tools and technology to do so. Technology is the most powerful equalizer of our time, providing access to data, knowledge, and--above all--connections. Salesforce.org gets our technology in the hands of nonprofits and educators so they can connect with others and do more good. As a social enterprise, the more missions our technology supports, the more we invest back into technology and communities, creating an endless circle of good. We’re here to help; visit us at Salesforce.org.

Job Category

Salesforce.org - Products and Technology

Job Details

Everyone who wants to change the world should have the tools and technology to do so. Technology is the most powerful equalizer of our time, providing access to data, knowledge, and--above all--connections. Salesforce.org gets our technology
in the hands of nonprofits and educators so they can connect with others and do more good. As a social enterprise, the more missions our technology supports, the more we invest back into technology and communities, creating an endless circle of good. We’re here to help; visit us at Salesforce.org.

We are looking for a release engineer to empower our product development teams in running, scaling, and expanding our automated processes for development and release and the Python based open source tooling to support it. Our team maintains a robust set of open source tooling to streamline the Salesforce development experience for both Salesforce.org's Product Delivery team and the broader community of Salesforce partners and customers. We manage release operations that deliver new software to the tens of thousands of NGO and Education organizations on Salesforce on a weekly basis. Our engineers leverage the latest in Salesforce packaging, SalesforceDX and the cutting edge of the Salesforce ISV development experience to enable scalable deployments and development across the Force.com platform technology stack.

These release engineers will be embedded with our product development teams, attending their sprint meetings, and become familiar with the products. They will bridge the gap between the product development teams and release engineering allowing us to maximize the gains from our ongoing investment in process, automation, and tooling.

Their primary responsibilities will be to:

·  Develop deep familiarity with all assigned products
·  Manage release operations for assigned products and teams
·  Support developers with build failure analysis
·  Design, architect and evolve automation processes and improvements across the development lifecycle
·  Provide expertise across the product teams on tooling, including SalesforceDX, CumulusCI and MetaCI

Secondary responsibilities will include:

·  Work with product teams to develop and evolve enhancements to our tooling that could further scale our work
·  Provide expertise and knowledge around managed packages and general packaging on Salesforce
·  Help maintain internal and public facing documentation for release engineering tooling

Required Skills

·  Proven history of attention to detail. This job requires coordinating frequent release cycles to tens of thousands of customers working to make the world a better place. Consistency of the release train is essential to maintaining our customer's Trust in our products.
·  Comfortable working in command line environments
·  3-5 years experience either as a Salesforce developer or as an admin directly engaged with Salesforce.org products
·  such as HEDA or NPSP
·  2-3 years experience with Python including an understanding of basic OO concepts in Python
·  Experience working in a support capacity, ideally supporting other developers. This role requires a support oriented
·  mindset placing overall team productivity first

Desired Skills

·  Familiarity and experience with Salesforce.org products such as NPSP, HEDA, and SAL
·  Familiarity with the organizational needs of NGO or Education organizations
·  In-depth knowledge and experience with Salesforce DX
·  Experience with Salesforce.org's tooling: CumulusCI and MetaCI
·  Experience deploying web applications on Heroku
·  Experience with Robot Framework for Python
·  Experience with the Django Web Framework

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