# Senior Release Engineer

**Company:** [Onebrief](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/onebrief)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $180k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps, GitHub Actions, Gitlab Ci/Cd, Argo Cd, Linux, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
**Posted:** 2026-05-29

> As a Senior Release Engineer, you will design, maintain, and improve deployment processes, build and scale CI/CD systems, and manage production environments. You will partner with engineering teams to eliminate bottlenecks and enhance platform resilience.

## Job Description

## 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.

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