Senior Automation Tester

Job Summary

Role Summary

We are seeking a Release Operations Engineer to join the Wearables Productivity and Infrastructure team. This role is the operational backbone of Meta's wearable device software releases, responsible for supporting the branch-to-release lifecycle across multiple product lines including AI-powered smart glasses, display glasses, and wrist-worn devices.

The ideal candidate will support release branch management, change request operations, build tracking, and cross-functional release communication for Meta's rapidly growing wearables portfolio. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role that directly affects the shipping velocity and quality of millions of consumer devices.

Core Responsibilities

1. Release Branch Operations (Primary - ~50% of time)

• Support operation on release branches across all Wearables product lines (5+ concurrent release trains)
• Process change requests (blocking and non-blocking changes) for merge into release branches
• Track and communicate with regular cadence
  1. daily build of interest candidates to cross-functional stakeholders
  2. release change status updates 
• Coordinate cherry-picks, merge conflict resolution, and diff landing on release branches
• Support hotfix release cycles including branch cuts, builds, and deployments

2. Release Health Monitoring & SEV Response (~20% of time)

• Monitor release branch health including build status, ingest pipelines, and test suites
• Escalate issues by
  1. filing release-impacting SEVs (build failures, test regressions)
  2. Pulling in the right engineering teams for faster resolution possible 
• Track release quality bar test failures

3. Release Tooling & Automation (~15% of time)

• Report Release Infrastructure issues with details
• Operate automation and AI skills
• Build and maintain release operational workflows and runbooks
• Identify and implement process improvements to reduce manual overhead

4. Cross-Functional Communication & Coordination (~15% of time)

• Serve as the release operations point of contact for 20+ engineering teams
• Cooperate with release leadership to meet release timelines and communicate impacts of schedule changes on release operation

Required Skills & Experience

Must-Have

• 3+ years experience in Release Engineering / Release Operations for consumer electronics or mobile platforms
• Familiarity with Android platform - AOSP builds, system services, app ingest pipelines
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines - build systems, automated testing, release branching strategies
• Git/Mercurial proficiency - cherry-picks, merge conflict resolution, branch management at scale
• Change management experience - evaluating risk of code changes landing in stabilized branches
• Strong communication skills - ability to write clear status updates for diverse audiences (engineering, TPM, QA, leadership)
• SEV response experience - triage, escalation, and driving resolution under time pressure
• Scripting/automation skills - Python, shell scripting, or similar for operational automation
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams - juggling 3-5 parallel release trains

Strongly Preferred

• Experience with Meta's internal tooling ecosystem (Release Beast, Phabricator/Diffs, Tasks, Buck2)
• Familiarity with embedded systems / firmware release processes
• Experience with wearable devices or IoT product release cycles
• Experience working with globally distributed teams
• Prior experience in a high-velocity release environment (weekly, bi-weekly or monthly cadences)

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with Scuba, ODS, or similar observability platforms for release health monitoring
• Background in test infrastructure (emulators, automated test suites, build test frameworks)
• Exposure to
  1. AI/ML feature integration on embedded devices
  2. security patch management for Android devices

Key Responsibilities

Role Summary

We are seeking a Release Operations Engineer to join the Wearables Productivity and Infrastructure team. This role is the operational backbone of Meta's wearable device software releases, responsible for supporting the branch-to-release lifecycle across multiple product lines including AI-powered smart glasses, display glasses, and wrist-worn devices.

The ideal candidate will support release branch management, change request operations, build tracking, and cross-functional release communication for Meta's rapidly growing wearables portfolio. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role that directly affects the shipping velocity and quality of millions of consumer devices.

Core Responsibilities

1. Release Branch Operations (Primary - ~50% of time)

• Support operation on release branches across all Wearables product lines (5+ concurrent release trains)
• Process change requests (blocking and non-blocking changes) for merge into release branches
• Track and communicate with regular cadence
  1. daily build of interest candidates to cross-functional stakeholders
  2. release change status updates 
• Coordinate cherry-picks, merge conflict resolution, and diff landing on release branches
• Support hotfix release cycles including branch cuts, builds, and deployments

2. Release Health Monitoring & SEV Response (~20% of time)

• Monitor release branch health including build status, ingest pipelines, and test suites
• Escalate issues by
  1. filing release-impacting SEVs (build failures, test regressions)
  2. Pulling in the right engineering teams for faster resolution possible 
• Track release quality bar test failures

3. Release Tooling & Automation (~15% of time)

• Report Release Infrastructure issues with details
• Operate automation and AI skills
• Build and maintain release operational workflows and runbooks
• Identify and implement process improvements to reduce manual overhead

4. Cross-Functional Communication & Coordination (~15% of time)

• Serve as the release operations point of contact for 20+ engineering teams
• Cooperate with release leadership to meet release timelines and communicate impacts of schedule changes on release operation

Required Skills & Experience

Must-Have

• 3+ years experience in Release Engineering / Release Operations for consumer electronics or mobile platforms
• Familiarity with Android platform - AOSP builds, system services, app ingest pipelines
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines - build systems, automated testing, release branching strategies
• Git/Mercurial proficiency - cherry-picks, merge conflict resolution, branch management at scale
• Change management experience - evaluating risk of code changes landing in stabilized branches
• Strong communication skills - ability to write clear status updates for diverse audiences (engineering, TPM, QA, leadership)
• SEV response experience - triage, escalation, and driving resolution under time pressure
• Scripting/automation skills - Python, shell scripting, or similar for operational automation
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams - juggling 3-5 parallel release trains

Strongly Preferred

• Experience with Meta's internal tooling ecosystem (Release Beast, Phabricator/Diffs, Tasks, Buck2)
• Familiarity with embedded systems / firmware release processes
• Experience with wearable devices or IoT product release cycles
• Experience working with globally distributed teams
• Prior experience in a high-velocity release environment (weekly, bi-weekly or monthly cadences)

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with Scuba, ODS, or similar observability platforms for release health monitoring
• Background in test infrastructure (emulators, automated test suites, build test frameworks)
• Exposure to
  1. AI/ML feature integration on embedded devices
  2. security patch management for Android devices

Skill Requirements

Role Summary

We are seeking a Release Operations Engineer to join the Wearables Productivity and Infrastructure team. This role is the operational backbone of Meta's wearable device software releases, responsible for supporting the branch-to-release lifecycle across multiple product lines including AI-powered smart glasses, display glasses, and wrist-worn devices.

The ideal candidate will support release branch management, change request operations, build tracking, and cross-functional release communication for Meta's rapidly growing wearables portfolio. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role that directly affects the shipping velocity and quality of millions of consumer devices.

Core Responsibilities

1. Release Branch Operations (Primary - ~50% of time)

• Support operation on release branches across all Wearables product lines (5+ concurrent release trains)
• Process change requests (blocking and non-blocking changes) for merge into release branches
• Track and communicate with regular cadence
  1. daily build of interest candidates to cross-functional stakeholders
  2. release change status updates 
• Coordinate cherry-picks, merge conflict resolution, and diff landing on release branches
• Support hotfix release cycles including branch cuts, builds, and deployments

2. Release Health Monitoring & SEV Response (~20% of time)

• Monitor release branch health including build status, ingest pipelines, and test suites
• Escalate issues by
  1. filing release-impacting SEVs (build failures, test regressions)
  2. Pulling in the right engineering teams for faster resolution possible 
• Track release quality bar test failures

3. Release Tooling & Automation (~15% of time)

• Report Release Infrastructure issues with details
• Operate automation and AI skills
• Build and maintain release operational workflows and runbooks
• Identify and implement process improvements to reduce manual overhead

4. Cross-Functional Communication & Coordination (~15% of time)

• Serve as the release operations point of contact for 20+ engineering teams
• Cooperate with release leadership to meet release timelines and communicate impacts of schedule changes on release operation

Required Skills & Experience

Must-Have

• 3+ years experience in Release Engineering / Release Operations for consumer electronics or mobile platforms
• Familiarity with Android platform - AOSP builds, system services, app ingest pipelines
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines - build systems, automated testing, release branching strategies
• Git/Mercurial proficiency - cherry-picks, merge conflict resolution, branch management at scale
• Change management experience - evaluating risk of code changes landing in stabilized branches
• Strong communication skills - ability to write clear status updates for diverse audiences (engineering, TPM, QA, leadership)
• SEV response experience - triage, escalation, and driving resolution under time pressure
• Scripting/automation skills - Python, shell scripting, or similar for operational automation
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams - juggling 3-5 parallel release trains

Strongly Preferred

• Experience with Meta's internal tooling ecosystem (Release Beast, Phabricator/Diffs, Tasks, Buck2)
• Familiarity with embedded systems / firmware release processes
• Experience with wearable devices or IoT product release cycles
• Experience working with globally distributed teams
• Prior experience in a high-velocity release environment (weekly, bi-weekly or monthly cadences)

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with Scuba, ODS, or similar observability platforms for release health monitoring
• Background in test infrastructure (emulators, automated test suites, build test frameworks)
• Exposure to
  1. AI/ML feature integration on embedded devices
  2. security patch management for Android devices

Other Requirements

Role Summary

We are seeking a Release Operations Engineer to join the Wearables Productivity and Infrastructure team. This role is the operational backbone of Meta's wearable device software releases, responsible for supporting the branch-to-release lifecycle across multiple product lines including AI-powered smart glasses, display glasses, and wrist-worn devices.

The ideal candidate will support release branch management, change request operations, build tracking, and cross-functional release communication for Meta's rapidly growing wearables portfolio. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role that directly affects the shipping velocity and quality of millions of consumer devices.

Core Responsibilities

1. Release Branch Operations (Primary - ~50% of time)

• Support operation on release branches across all Wearables product lines (5+ concurrent release trains)
• Process change requests (blocking and non-blocking changes) for merge into release branches
• Track and communicate with regular cadence
  1. daily build of interest candidates to cross-functional stakeholders
  2. release change status updates 
• Coordinate cherry-picks, merge conflict resolution, and diff landing on release branches
• Support hotfix release cycles including branch cuts, builds, and deployments

2. Release Health Monitoring & SEV Response (~20% of time)

• Monitor release branch health including build status, ingest pipelines, and test suites
• Escalate issues by
  1. filing release-impacting SEVs (build failures, test regressions)
  2. Pulling in the right engineering teams for faster resolution possible 
• Track release quality bar test failures

3. Release Tooling & Automation (~15% of time)

• Report Release Infrastructure issues with details
• Operate automation and AI skills
• Build and maintain release operational workflows and runbooks
• Identify and implement process improvements to reduce manual overhead

4. Cross-Functional Communication & Coordination (~15% of time)

• Serve as the release operations point of contact for 20+ engineering teams
• Cooperate with release leadership to meet release timelines and communicate impacts of schedule changes on release operation

Required Skills & Experience

Must-Have

• 3+ years experience in Release Engineering / Release Operations for consumer electronics or mobile platforms
• Familiarity with Android platform - AOSP builds, system services, app ingest pipelines
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines - build systems, automated testing, release branching strategies
• Git/Mercurial proficiency - cherry-picks, merge conflict resolution, branch management at scale
• Change management experience - evaluating risk of code changes landing in stabilized branches
• Strong communication skills - ability to write clear status updates for diverse audiences (engineering, TPM, QA, leadership)
• SEV response experience - triage, escalation, and driving resolution under time pressure
• Scripting/automation skills - Python, shell scripting, or similar for operational automation
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams - juggling 3-5 parallel release trains

Strongly Preferred

• Experience with Meta's internal tooling ecosystem (Release Beast, Phabricator/Diffs, Tasks, Buck2)
• Familiarity with embedded systems / firmware release processes
• Experience with wearable devices or IoT product release cycles
• Experience working with globally distributed teams
• Prior experience in a high-velocity release environment (weekly, bi-weekly or monthly cadences)

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with Scuba, ODS, or similar observability platforms for release health monitoring
• Background in test infrastructure (emulators, automated test suites, build test frameworks)
• Exposure to
  1. AI/ML feature integration on embedded devices
  2. security patch management for Android devices