Senior Software Engineer, Release Systems

  • Full-time

Company Description

We believe everyone should be able to participate and thrive in the economy. So we’re building tools that make commerce easier and more accessible to all. We started with a little white credit card reader but haven’t stopped there. Our new reader helps our sellers accept chip cards and NFC payments, and our Cash app lets people pay each other back instantly. We’re empowering the independent electrician to send invoices, setting up the favorite food truck with a delivery option, helping the ice cream shop pay its employees, and giving the burgeoning coffee chain capital for a second, third, and fourth location. Let’s shorten the distance between having an idea and making a living from it. We’re here to help sellers of all sizes start, run, and grow their business—and helping them grow their business is good business for everyone.

Job Description

Release Systems is responsible for deploying updated software to Square’s increasingly large and complex network of embedded devices. We’re facing multiple problems of scale: we must serve larger bundles of code - to more devices - more frequently, while constantly improving the customer experience associated with this process. We need full-stack software services that can scale with this task.

Qualifications

You will:

  • Design and implement software services to validate, deploy, and monitor software updates for Square embedded devices.
  • Scale our deployment infrastructure and systems to support future hardware offerings and growth.
  • Develop a platform for automated end-to-end testing of Square’s software+hardware payment systems.
  • Utilize metrics reporting to gain insight into the health of our test and release infrastructure.
  • Empower the team to be brave, move fast, and break things, without ever showing a negative impact to customers.
  • Work cross-functionally with our product and business teams to develop Square’s global hardware strategy.

You Have

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  • Proficient in at least one of Ruby, Python, Java, and/or Go.
  • Experience developing highly available and scalable production services.
  • A strong desire to abstract away complexity, replace repetition with automation, and design user-centered solutions.
  • Innate curiosity and a passion for learning.

Even better

  • Experience with front-end development.
  • Experience developing iOS or Android mobile applications.

Technologies We Use

  • Ruby, Python
  • Rails, Protocol Buffers, gRPC
  • MySQL, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, Hive


Additional Information

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