Senior Release Engineer

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Release Engineer to own the end-to-end release lifecycle across our product portfolio. You'll be the connective tissue between engineering, QA, and operations—planning releases, hardening our CI/CD pipelines, enforcing quality gates, and making sure every deployment is predictable, traceable, and low-risk.

Responsibilities

• Own release planning and coordination across multiple teams and services—defining release schedules, cut-off dates, freeze windows, and go/no-go criteria.
• Design, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Actions, including build, test, artifact, and deployment stages.
• Manage branching, versioning, and release strategies (e.g., trunk-based, release branches, semantic versioning) across PHP, .NET, and React codebases.
• Define and enforce quality gates, integrating Selenium and Playwright automated test suites into pipelines so failures block promotion.
• Care for deployments across environments (dev, staging, production) and own rollback and recovery procedures when releases go sideways.
• Drive release readiness reviews—tracking open work items in Azure DevOps Boards, surfacing risks, and ensuring sign-offs are in place.
• Maintain clear release notes, change logs, and a complete audit trail for compliance and post-mortem purposes.
• Partner with development, QA, security, and infrastructure teams to remove bottlenecks and continuously improve cycle time and deployment frequency.
• Establish and report on release metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR) and use them to drive process improvements.
• Champion release automation and a culture of repeatable, self-service deployments.

Requirements

• 5+ years in release management, DevOps, or build/release engineering, with at least 2+ in a senior or lead capacity.
• Hands-on expertise with Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Boards, Artifacts) and GitHub Actions for CI/CD.
• Strong understanding of branching and versioning strategies and how to apply them across multiple languages and runtimes.
• Experience integrating automated testing—Selenium and Playwright—into release pipelines as enforced quality gates.
• Solid grasp of deployment patterns (blue/green, canary, rolling) and rollback strategies.
• Excellent cross-functional communication—comfortable running go/no-go calls and coordinating under pressure during a release or incident.

Qualifications

• Target Compensation: $120,000 - $130,000 + Bonus
• DOT Requirements: If applicable, meet all DOT qualification requirements and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local transportation regulations.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Company-paid health care concierge service
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid vacation, sick, personal and parental leave time
• Paid Volunteer Time
• Employee Recognition Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Access to on-demand training courses to advance further in your career

Skills

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with Azure/AWS cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep).
• Exposure to artifact/package management (NuGet, npm, Composer).
• Experience in a regulated or compliance-driven environment (SOC 2, ISO, etc.).

Pay

$110,500.00 - $165,700.00

Schedule

N/A

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Company-paid health care concierge service
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid vacation, sick, personal and parental leave time
• Paid Volunteer Time
• Employee Recognition Program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Access to on-demand training courses to advance further in your career