What does a production engineer do?

Do any startups allow any engineer to deploy to production?

  • In my experience the deploy to production is always controlled by operations or higher ups (CTO). Are there any startups that allow any engineer to deploy to production whenever they want?

  • Answer:

    Continuous integration should mean that at any point, master should be clean and sane enough, with all tests passing, to be deployed. still has all its engineers deploying to production. It's kind of a rite of passage.

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Yes, blekko is another fan of continuous deployment. While we aren't quite as automated as other examples, it's a fairly routine task to deploy to production. Our experience is that we have to roll back due to not-caught-early-by-automated-testing problems about once per 2 weeks, and the outage is usually only for a small subset of our users for 10s of minutes. That's acceptable to us. We started doing this quite a while ago, and our test suite is getting better all the time at catching problems early. The benefits have been quite nice: many of our engineers like the ability to get code to production quickly.

Greg Lindahl

Yes. It's a matter of trust, responsibility and accountability. Wealthfront is one example company.

Adam Rosien

If I have hired someone who is new to Continuous Deployment, we let them get comfortable with the concept.  They are usually ready in a few weeks.

Dickey Singh

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