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Wireless Generation
Company Profile | Current Opportunities (19)
Job Location(s): Brooklyn
Employment Term: Regular
Employment TypeFull Time
Start Date:As soon as possible
Starting Salary Range:Not Provided
Required Education: Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience: Open
Related Categories:Real Estate and Property Mgmt

Position Description

Location: Brooklyn, NY
Duration: Regular Full-Time
Relocation Available: No

Wireless Generation creates innovative tools, systems, and services that help educators teach smarter. With its mobile assessment software, the company invented a better way to give classroom assessments and make data-based instructional decisions. Now Wireless Generation has broken new ground with technology that analyzes student data and customizes curriculum to individual learning needs. Wireless Generation also builds large-scale data systems that centralize student data and give educators and parents unprecedented visibility into learning. A Web 2.0 collaboration and knowledge network for educators propagates proven approaches across schools. Wireless Generation currently serves more than 200,000 educators and 3 million students. More information is available at www.WirelessGeneration.com

Release Engineer



Job Description - Release Engineer

The Release Team is critically inserted in the software development flow at Wireless Generation. We schedule, document, package and deploy all software changes to production on all of Wireless Generation's platforms. We make sure that what runs in production is both sane and expected. We strive to support changes as fast as the business requires it without compromising the integrity of the production of the services that our customers use daily.

Responsibilities of Release Engineer:

  • Support and improve our tools for release management and deployment.
  • Stage new releases and promote them to production
  • Troubleshoot deployment issues on live systems until the problem is fully understood and its effects mitigated

Requirements of Release Engineer:

  • BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • At least 2 years experience in software engineering, release engineering, and/or configuration management
  • Strong familiarity with software configuration management, svn and git experience highly desired
  • Extensive knowledge of Linux and SQL databases
  • Solid foundations in scalable, web software architectures
  • Highly skilled in a scripting language, a bash/python combination ideal
  • Experience with centralized deployment systems (e.g., bcfg2, chef, Capistrano, puppet)
  • Experience with Linux package management systems (e.g. rpm, DEB)



Wireless Generation is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V.


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