Senior Release Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, uphold, and continually enhance our deployment Golden Path to ensure a swift, reliable, and secure transition from merged code to production.

• Develop and scale CI/CD systems that emphasize deterministic builds, high cache efficiency, quick feedback cycles, and enhanced developer productivity.

• Implement and manage automated security measures, including SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and CVE detection, ensuring that every release inherently meets our security standards.

• Oversee production environments and deployment workflows using strategies like canary releases, blue/green deployments, progressive delivery, and automated rollbacks.

• Take ownership of and advance our Kubernetes platform, Helm charts, and infrastructure configuration, ensuring consistency, reliability, and repeatability across all environments.

• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to eliminate delivery bottlenecks, create reusable platform patterns, and empower squads to deploy independently with confidence.

• Discover opportunities to minimize operational toil, enhance deployment safety, and boost platform resilience through automation and self-service tools.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 4 years of experience in Platform Engineering, Release Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or related software engineering positions.

• Proven track record of operating and scaling production systems with a strong emphasis on reliability, security, and operational excellence.

• Demonstrated success in building, maintaining, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines within modern cloud-native environments.

• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and Helm in production settings.

• Strong grasp of Infrastructure as Code principles and configuration management practices.

• Familiarity with contemporary deployment and GitOps tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD, or similar platforms.

• Practical experience integrating security tools into delivery pipelines, including vulnerability, dependency, and application security scanning.

• Robust knowledge of Linux systems, networking basics, containers, and distributed systems.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the capacity to work effectively in a remote-first setting.

• Ability to distill complex infrastructure and platform needs into straightforward, scalable solutions for engineering teams.

• Collaborative, low-ego attitude with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.

• Comfortable influencing engineering practices across teams through collaboration, mentorship, and technical leadership.

• Experience managing multi-cluster Kubernetes environments (Nice to Have).

• Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or similar tools (Nice to Have).

• Familiarity with platform engineering concepts, internal developer platforms, and self-service infrastructure (Nice to Have).

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity: Participate in the company's success.

• Flexible Work Environment: Remote-first organization* with adaptable work hours and unlimited PTO.***(*note that some roles require in-person presence with customers)*

• Comprehensive Health Coverage: Includes health, dental, vision, and life insurance.

• Retirement Plan: 401(k) plan with company matching to secure your future.

• Parental Leave: 8 weeks at 100% pay regardless of state.

• Company Retreats: Annual summits for team bonding.

• Home Office Budget: $1,000 annually for home office enhancements.