Member of Technical Staff: SRE, Release Engineer

We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented SRE Release Engineer to lead and streamline the CI/CD pipeline for our C and Python codebase. You will be responsible for coordinating, automating, and validating biweekly production releases, ensuring operational stability, high deployment velocity, and system reliability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years in SRE, DevOps, or release engineering roles.
• Proficiency in CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab).
• Experience automating deployments for C and Python applications.
• Strong understanding of Git version control, merge/rebase strategies, tagging, and submodules (if used).
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and deployment orchestration (e.g.,

Kubernetes, Ansible, or Terraform).

• Solid scripting experience (Python, Bash, or similar).
• Understanding of observability, monitoring, and incident response tooling (e.g.,Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Sentry).

Preferred Skills

• Experience with release coordination in data networking environments
• Familiarity with build tools like Make, CMake, or Bazel.
• Exposure to artifact management systems (e.g., Artifactory, Nexus).
• Experience deploying to Linux production systems with service uptime guarantees.

Responsibilities

• Own the release process: Plan, coordinate, and execute biweekly software releases across multiple services.
• Automate release pipelines: Build and maintain CI/CD workflows using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
• Version control: Manage and enforce Git best practices, branching strategies (e.g., Git Flow), tagging, and release versioning.
• Integrate testing frameworks: Ensure automated test coverage (unit, integration,regression) is enforced pre-release.
• Release validation: Develop pre-release verification tools/scripts to validate build integrity and backward compatibility.
• Deployment strategy: Implement and refine blue/green, rolling, or canary deployments in staging and production environments.
• Incident readiness: Partner with SREs to ensure rollback strategies, monitoring, and alerting are release-aware.
• Collaboration: Work closely with developers, QA, and product teams to align on release timelines and feature readiness.

Success Metrics

• Achieve >95% release success rate with minimal hotfix rollbacks.
• Reduce mean release deployment time by 30% within 6 months.
• Maintain a weekly release readiness report with zero critical blockers.
• Enable full traceability of builds from commit to deployment.

Benefits
Enjoy a great environment, great people, and a great package

• Stock Appreciation Rights - Generous pre series-B stock options
• Generous Gratuity Plan - Long service compensation far exceeding Indian statutory requirements
• Health Insurance - Premium health insurance for employee, spouse and children
• Working Hours - Flexible working hours with sole focus on enabling a great work environment
• Work Environment - Work with top industry experts in an environment that fosters co-operation, learning and developing skills
• Make a Difference - We're here because we want to make an impact on the world - we hope you do too

Why Join RtBrick
Enjoy the excitement of a start-up without the risk
We're revolutionizing the Internet's backbone by using cutting-edge software development techniques. The internet and, more specifically, broadband networks are among the most world's most critical technologies, that billions of people rely on every day. Rtbrick is revolutionizing the way these networks are constructed, moving away from traditional monolithic routing systems to a more agile, disaggregated infrastructure and distributed edge network functions. This shift mirrors transformations seen in computing and cloud technologies, marking the most profound change in networking since the inception of IP technology.

We're pioneering a cloud-native approach, harnessing the power of container-based software, microservices, a devops philosophy, and warehouse scale tools to drive innovation.

And although RtBrick is a young innovative company, RtBrick stands on solid financial ground: we are already cash-flow positive, backed by major telco investors like Swisscom Ventures and T-Capital, and our solutions are actively deployed by Tier-1 telcos including Deutsche Telekom (Europe's largest carrier), Regional ISPs and City ISPs—with expanding operations across Europe, North America and Asia.

Joining RtBrick offers you the unique thrill of a startup environment, coupled with the security that comes from working in a business with substantial market presence and significant revenue streams.

We'd love you to come and join us so why don't you embrace the opportunity to be part of a team that's not just participating in the market but actively shaping the future of telecommunications worldwide.

Skills:- C, Python, DevOps, SRE, Bash, Jenkins and cicd