Release Engineer

Position Summary

We are seeking a Release Engineer to own and continuously improve the systems automation and processes that enable reliable software delivery across our platform. This role is responsible for maintaining release infrastructure supporting development teams and ensuring that code moves safely and efficiently from commit to production.

The ideal candidate combines strong operational skills with a software engineering mindset using automation to reduce friction improve reliability and enhance the developer experience.

What This Role Owns

The Release Engineer owns the path from merged code to successful production deployment. This includes CI/CD systems deployment automation release workflows operational tooling and the continuous improvement of software delivery practices across the engineering organization.

Responsibilities

Software Delivery and Release Automation

• Manage and optimize application release processes across development staging and production environments.
• Maintain and improve deployment workflows using SemaphoreCI event-driven services and web and command line interfaces.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure releases are repeatable observable and low-risk.
• Support deployment planning release readiness and rollback procedures.
• Continuously identify opportunities to reduce manual release activities through automation.

CI/CD Platform Ownership

• Build maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines supporting Ruby applications and supporting services.
• Improve build performance deployment reliability and pipeline efficiency.
• Develop reusable deployment templates and workflow standards.
• Troubleshoot build test and deployment failures across engineering teams.

Developer Enablement

• Improve the developer experience by simplifying release workflows and deployment processes.
• Provide guidance and support for release-related issues.
• Create and maintain documentation runbooks and operational standards.
• Partner with development teams to promote continuous delivery best practices.

Operational Excellence

• Monitor release health and deployment outcomes.
• Analyze deployment metrics and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Participate in incident response activities when release-related issues occur.
• Contribute to post-incident reviews and remediation efforts.

Collaboration

• Work closely with Software Engineering DevOps Database Administration Security and Product teams.
• Coordinate release activities that require cross-functional collaboration.
• Support organizational initiatives focused on reliability scalability and engineering effectiveness.

Required Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in Release Engineering DevOps Platform Engineering Site Reliability Engineering or a related role.
• Experience supporting CI/CD platforms in a production SaaS environment.
• Strong understanding of Git-based development workflows.
• Experience with Linux-based systems and scripting.
• Familiarity with Ruby application deployment and operational considerations.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SemaphoreCI.
• Experience supporting Ruby on Rails applications.
• Experience with AWS services and cloud-native architectures.
• Familiarity with Docker and containerized workloads.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience supporting Kubernetes-based deployment environments.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability platforms.

Technical Skills

Application Delivery

• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails
• Git
• SemaphoreCI

Cloud and Infrastructure

• AWS
• Linux
• Terraform

Containerization and Orchestration

• Docker
• Kubernetes (preferred)

Automation and Scripting

• Ruby
• Bash
• Python

Monitoring and Observability

• Datadog
• CloudWatch
• Logging and tracing platforms

Success Measures

Success in this role is measured by:

• Increased deployment reliability and predictability.
• Reduced manual effort within release workflows.
• Faster recovery from deployment-related incidents.
• Improved developer satisfaction with release processes.
• Improve CI/CD reliability
• Increased deployment frequency while maintaining platform stability.

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