Software Engineer - Release Engineering

Job Description

Are you a Software Engineer with a passion for building tools to improve developer productivity? Are you interested in joining us in our studio? We have an opening in our Toolchain team that supports the R&D teams as they create software used by artists in various craft departments.

What you'll get to do:
• Support and improve tools for continuous integration, automated testing and release management
• Deploy and maintain automated solutions to monitor, test, repair and scale our systems
• Introduce new tools to improve developer productivity
• Develop and document tools and workflows which can be integrated by R&D and other technical teams
• Communicate within and between teams to determine the best solutions for challenges in workflow and toolchain
• Collaborate on Open Source projects with internal and external stakeholders and participate in our continuous involvement with the Academy Software Foundation

What you bring:
• A tertiary qualification in Computer Science or a related field
• At least 2 years' experience developing tools
• Experience with build systems and C++, Java or Python toolchains
• Passion for software quality, performance, benchmarking and building tools to improve developer productivity
• Good soft skills managing both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Self motivation with a strong sense of ownership over complex problems and their related solutions
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines
• Fluency in using Linux CLI and shell scripts
• Good knowledge of source control tools

And you might also have:
• Rez and/or other package managers
• Jenkins
• Cloud architectures (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Containerisation (e.g., Docker)
• Experience with specific build systems and C++ compilers (CMake, make, ninja, gcc, clang)

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d9z4om-3-144-248-8-42 in your application.