Release Engineer

Who We Are:

Since 1906, New Balance has empowered people through sport and craftsmanship to create positive change in communities around the world. We innovate fearlessly, guided by our core values and driven by the belief that conventions were meant to be challenged. We foster a culture in which every associate feels welcomed and respected, where leaders and creatives are inspired to shape the world of tomorrow by taking bold action today.

We are currently seeking a Release Engineer to support NB’s Technology Organization. This role offers the exciting opportunity to drive improvements in release engineering tools, processes and methodologies for NB’s technology stack. This role will collaborate with other engineering teams such as DevOps, quality engineering, software development and others to implement a build, verification test and deployment software stack to support all of NB’s applications and technologies. 

The successful candidate will champion the reliable delivery of software through continuous improvement and drive automation of the various pipelines, be accountable for the quality of the builds and deployments while interacting with other teams to drive dependency resolution. In addition, you will need to promote a positive relationship with engineering partners and collaborate with them to plan, design, develop and test release engineering build solutions. 

MAJOR ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Design, code, implement or enhance existing software solutions that integrate with our Engineering Platform that build, test and automate deployment of NB’s application stack. 

• Partner with various engineering teams such as DevOps, quality engineering, software development and release management to build scalable tools and infrastructure to build their software. 

• Automate and optimize data refresh, data validation, and database deployment processes within CI/CD pipelines to improve consistency, reliability, and auditability. 

• Collaboratively iterate on improvements to engineering best practices 

• Participate in cross-functional initiatives to collaborate and gather requirements from other engineering teams and translate them into software features that enhance reliability and functionality of the build and deployment systems. 

• Collaborate with peers and engineering partners on ways Release Engineering can improve functionality, performance and scale 

• Be on-call as required during critical periods in application release cycles and agree to respond to incident 

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCCESS

• 5+ years of experience designing and developing software, as well as managing development toolchains 

• Demonstrated proficiency with tools, technologies and platforms such as git, github, Jenkins, AWS 

• Experience developing application and platform solutions in a matrixed environment 

• Proven ability to collaborate and communicate on projects (champion, demo/POC, pitch concepts) 

• Experience scripting or coding in languages such as bash, perl, python, ruby, java 

• Kubernetes deployment tooling and test automation experience 

• Ability to effectively work and communicate in a distributed, cross-functional team environment 

• Excellent presentation skills 

• Proficiency with both waterfall and agile (scrum, kanban) delivery methodologies 

• Expertise analyzing and debugging large-scale distributed systems including Mainframe, middleware/API applications such as MuleSoft and distributed cloud technologies including AWS, Azure, OpenShift 

Flexible Work Schedule

For decades we have fostered a unique culture founded on our values with a particular focus on in-person teamwork and collaboration. Our hybrid model encourages rich in-person experiences, showcasing our commitment to teamwork and connection, while providing high levels of flexibility to associates. North American office-based associates are expected to come into the office on Wednesdays, with other occasional in-office days for in-person meetings and events as needed. Our offices are fully open and amenities are available across our North American office locations.

Equal Opportunity Employer

New Balance provides equal opportunities for all current and prospective associates and takes affirmative action to ensure that employment, training, compensation, transfer, promotion and other terms, conditions and privileges of employment are provided without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, handicap, genetic information and/or status as an Armed Forces service medal veteran, recently separated veteran, qualified disabled veteran or other protected veteran.