About the Role
The role involves managing a team of engineers who build and maintain systems that enable rapid, reliable software releases. The manager will drive operational excellence, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to streamline deployment pipelines and improve system observability.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of release engineers focused on deployment systems and tooling
- Establish and track key performance metrics for deployment frequency and stability
- Collaborate with product and platform teams to integrate release automation
- Drive incident response improvements for production deployment issues
- Mentor engineers in technical and professional development
- Define and implement scalable CI/CD practices across engineering groups
- Evaluate and adopt tools for configuration management and infrastructure as code
- Ensure compliance with security and audit requirements in release workflows
- Optimize build and deployment times across services
- Foster a culture of ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement
- Manage team priorities and align with broader engineering objectives
- Oversee on-call rotations and post-mortem processes
- Work closely with SRE and platform teams on system resilience
- Lead initiatives to reduce technical debt in deployment pipelines
- Improve developer experience through self-service release tools
- Drive standardization of release practices across teams
- Evaluate risks associated with new deployment strategies
- Support global deployment coordination across time zones
- Ensure documentation is maintained for release processes
- Promote automation to reduce manual intervention in releases
- Guide adoption of canary and blue-green deployment patterns
- Monitor system health during and after deployments
- Facilitate knowledge sharing across engineering teams
- Balance speed of delivery with system stability
- Lead planning for major release events and migrations
Compensation
Competitive salary and equity package
Work Arrangement
Hybrid work model with flexible remote options
Team
Part of the core engineering leadership team focused on delivery infrastructure
Why This Role Matters
- Software delivery speed and reliability are critical to product innovation. This role directly impacts how quickly and safely new features reach users by leading the team behind the scenes infrastructure.
- The manager will shape the future of deployment systems at scale, influencing developer workflows across the organization.
Growth Opportunities
- Leaders in this role have pathways to expand their scope into platform engineering, DevOps strategy, or broader engineering leadership roles.
- Opportunities to present technical roadmaps to executive stakeholders and contribute to company-wide engineering initiatives.
Available for qualified candidates
