Senior Release Engineer

What You'll Do

• Design, maintain, and continuously improve our deployment Golden Path, ensuring the journey from merged code to production is fast, reliable, and secure.
• Build and scale CI/CD systems that prioritize deterministic builds, high cache efficiency, rapid feedback cycles, and developer productivity.
• Implement and operate automated security controls, including SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and CVE detection, so every release meets our security standards by default.
• Manage production environments and deployment workflows using strategies such as canary releases, blue/green deployments, progressive delivery, and automated rollbacks.
• Own and evolve our Kubernetes platform, Helm charts, and infrastructure configuration, ensuring consistency, reliability, and repeatability across environments.
• Partner closely with engineering teams to eliminate delivery bottlenecks, establish reusable platform patterns, and enable squads to ship independently with confidence.
• Identify opportunities to reduce operational toil, improve deployment safety, and increase platform resilience through automation and self-service tooling.

What We're Looking For

Experience

• 4+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Release Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or related software engineering roles.
• Demonstrated experience operating and scaling production systems with a strong focus on reliability, security, and operational excellence.
• Proven success building, maintaining, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines in modern cloud-native environments.

Technical Expertise

• Deep experience with Kubernetes and Helm in production environments.
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code principles and configuration management practices.
• Experience with modern deployment and GitOps tooling such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD, or similar platforms.
• Hands-on experience integrating security tooling into delivery pipelines, including vulnerability, dependency, and application security scanning.
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, containers, and distributed systems.

Collaboration & Communication

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a remote-first environment.
• Ability to translate complex infrastructure and platform requirements into simple, scalable solutions for engineering teams.
• Collaborative, low-ego approach with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Comfortable influencing engineering practices across teams through partnership, mentorship, and technical leadership.

Nice to Have

• Experience operating multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with platform engineering concepts, internal developer platforms, and self-service infrastructure.
• Experience supporting rapidly growing engineering organizations and improving developer productivity at scale.