ClickUp is hiring a Release Engineering Manager to help ship faster and with increased confidence across our AI-powered web, mobile, and desktop platforms. You will own the continuous delivery of high-quality releases from early stage test environments through staging and into production, ensuring the process is proactive, reliable, and scalable.
What You'll Do
- Own and evolve the release process for key platform components, ensuring safe, high-quality, and on-time deployments to production.
- Automate release workflows including validation, approvals, and rollouts to reduce manual effort and increase reliability.
- Implement observability and metrics in partnership with Infra and SRE, using tools like Datadog to monitor release health, stability, and deployment success.
- Develop and maintain playbooks, release calendars, and technical implementation plans, covering both application and infrastructure components.
- Plan and manage all release activities in coordination with Engineering, QA/QE, and Productivity teams across web, mobile, and desktop.
- Lead daily release reviews and Go/No-Go execution, including deployment plans, validation checklists, and readiness gates.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to assess deployment impact, automate dependency checks, and enforce best practices in CI/CD pipelines.
- Maintain release repositories and process automation, including feature flag governance, version tagging, and dependency tracking.
- Track and improve release metrics such as velocity, stability, and defect rates; build dashboards and alerting for continuous visibility.
- Drive production incident triage and post-mortem analysis, identifying opportunities for automation and process hardening.
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years experience in release engineering and management.
- Strong understanding of the SDLC, including CD and release readiness.
- Expertise with CD pipelines based on Github Actions, Harness, Jenkins or similar.
- Hands-on experience with issue and project tracking techniques.
- Ability to coordinate cross-functionally across engineering teams and multiple time zones.
- Familiarity with agile methodologies, cloud-native micro-services, and DevOps best practices.
- Scripting experience in Python, Bash, or similar, for automation or release tooling.
- Experience with observability and dashboard tools like Grafana, Kibana, DataDog, or Tableau.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with feature flag systems and rollout strategies (e.g., gradual rollout, canary deployments).
Technical Stack
- CI/CD: Github Actions, Harness, Jenkins
- Observability: Datadog, Grafana, Kibana, Tableau
- Scripting: Python, Bash
Team & Environment
This role is embedded in the Quality team.
Work Mode
This is a global position.
ClickUp is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
