Release Engineering Manager
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Job Location:
San Diego, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
At ClickUp were not just building software. Were architecting the future of work! In a world overwhelmed by work sprawl we saw a better way. Thats why we created the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks docs chat calendar and enterprise search all supercharged by context-driven AI empowering millions of teams to break free from silos reclaim their time and unlock new levels of productivity. At ClickUp youll have the opportunity to learn use and pioneer AI in ways that shape not only our product but the future of work itself. Join us and be part of a bold innovative team thats redefining whats possible!
About the Role
What Youll Do
- Own and evolve the release process for key components of our platform ensuring safe high-quality and on-time deployments to production
- Automate release workflows wherever possible 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 and accountability
- Drive production incident triage and post-mortem analysis identifying opportunities for automation and process hardening to improve release reliability
What You Bring
- 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
Bonus Skills
- Familiarity with feature flag systems and rollout strategies (e.g. gradual rollout canary deployments)
Salary and Benefits
At ClickUp we believe in transparency and fairness in compensation. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Please note that the actual compensation for this position may vary and is dependent on factors such as geographic location interview performance years of experience education level and specific skills. We encourage candidates to discuss compensation expectations during the interview process to ensure alignment with their qualifications and our companys compensation philosophy.
This position is eligible for the following benefits and perks:
- Equity
- 401k
- Health Dental and Vision insurance
- Spending accounts
- Life & Disability
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible paid time off
- Enhanced employee assistance program
- Employee wellness stipend
- Professional development stipend
Unsure if you meet all the qualifications of this job description but are deeply excited about the role We hire based on ambition grit and a passion for improving the way people work. If you think ClickUp is the company for you we encourage you to apply!
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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Our mission is to make the world more productive. To do this, we built the everything app for work - Tasks, Docs, Goals, and Chat.
