Senior Release Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain GitLab CI/CD or comparable pipelines for enterprise applications, including validation, testing, packaging, deployment, promotion, rollback, and post-release verification.
• Develop reusable Python or other scripting-language automation to reduce manual release work and improve repeatability.
• Use approved AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude or comparable enterprise-approved tools for pipeline development, scripting, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, release analysis, and operational automation.
• Define CI/CD patterns for Salesforce, Zuora, and other business systems.
• Establish environment and promotion strategies across development, test, staging, and production, including configuration management and deployment sequencing.
• Implement quality gates, automated checks, approvals, audit trails, and policy controls.
• Partner with application and development teams on branching, versioning, release cadence, and rollback standards.
• Improve release observability through deployment dashboards, pipeline metrics, change records, notifications, and operational reporting.
• Investigate failed deployments, lead root-cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
• Contribute to release calendars, change planning, blackout-period coordination, and risk-based release decisions.
• Create documentation, runbooks, reusable templates, and enablement materials.
• Coach engineers and application teams on CI/CD, release automation, branching strategies, testing, and operational readiness.
• Collaborate with security, compliance, architecture, and enterprise application stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of experience in release engineering, DevOps, or a related discipline.
• Experience managing releases and deployments for enterprise SaaS applications such as Salesforce, Zuora, or other business systems.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and operating GitLab CI/CD or comparable production pipelines.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language, such as Python, with the ability to write maintainable automation and integrations.
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development and automation tools such as Claude or comparable enterprise-approved tools in day-to-day DevOps and release engineering work.
• Experience with source control, branching and merging, artifact management, automated testing, deployment orchestration, and rollback practices.
• Working knowledge of REST APIs, webhooks, JSON, authentication patterns, and integration troubleshooting.
• Experience managing releases across multiple environments with attention to configuration, dependencies, access controls, and auditability.
• Ability to troubleshoot pipeline failures, deployment issues, integration defects, and environment inconsistencies.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering, business, security, compliance, and operations teams.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Team member resource groups
• Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
• Growth and development fund
• Parental leave