McD Tech Labs Release Engineer

Job Description

McD Tech Labs is the recently established Silicon Valley based technology development group within McDonald’s Corporation. The mission of McD Tech Labs is to deliver advanced technology solutions that address real-world, data-driven needs in the McDonald’s Restaurant environment. McD Tech Labs is focused on using state-of-the-art Machine Learning, AI, and related technologies along with McDonald’s unparalleled scale to completely transform the customer experience.

We are currently looking for talented release engineers to work on stabilizing and accelerating the development process for our cutting-edge voice based conversational AI systems. The core responsibilities of the infrastructure engineer focuses on accelerating the pace of stable and predictable development at McD Tech Labs.

• Keep the Tree “Green” / Keep All Tests Passing
• Serve as an owner of the tree, the totality of code in the repo, and involved in ongoing initiatives to keep all tests passing
• Address core design and stability issues across the stack
• Develop and Maintain Continuous Integration Suites in Python and Java
• Serve as an owner of the continuous integration and unit testing frameworks, environment and tooling around them
• Develop and Maintain Engineer Facing Build, Test, Profile, and Release Tooling
• Serve as an owner of the tools used by engineers for incremental build, test, profiling, and release engineering
• Develop, Deploy, Automate, and Migrate Best Coding Practices
• Serve as an owner in the continuous process of maintaining the cannon of “Best Practices” at McD Tech Labs including the policy judgements made around code style, documentation conventions, calling patterns, and library use
• Educate the engineering teams on best practices, and where possible automate enforcement and migrate existing code to ensure compliance
• Develop and Maintain the Engineering Environment Tooling
• Define and maintain the environment defined by a “correct” checkout of the dev environment, the associated automated tooling, as well as the “correct” integration with various IDEs and profiling tooling
• Provide technical support and training to engineers on the use of the development environment

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field, or equivalent experience
• Quick learner and ability to quickly add value to the team
• 5+ years of experience in Linux environments; expert understanding of Linux processes
• 3+ years of professional experience in Bash Shell Scripting
• 5+ years of professional experience in Python and/or Java

• AWS experience
• Gradle build system
• JetBrains TeamCity
• SQL
• C++ / Python FFI Development

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