
Release Engineer
Ironclad
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $120,000 - $135,000 per year
About the role
- Enhance the end-to-end build and deployment pipelines, ensuring reliable, repeatable, and well-instrumented deployments across environments through automation, tooling improvements, and proactive issue resolution
- Partner closely with Engineering, QE, and Product to plan, coordinate, and execute releases — managing risk, validating readiness, maintaining visibility into changes, and driving continuous enhancements to release processes and infrastructure
- Manage the weekly code deployment process, including:
- Coordinate the testing and verification work with QE & Devs for deployment signoff
- Manage the merges and branch promotions as part of the deployment process
- Ensure all of the Post-deploy verifications are complete and are closed out
- Understand and communicate the deployment and release calendars to ensure EPD knows when and where to merge changes and features are released on schedule
- Coordinate the release process, including:
- Maintain and update release calendar for deployments and releases
- Manage all release items and coordination in Jira/Asana
- Coordinate and manage feature flags related to releases
- Communicate feature flag states for upcoming releases
- Update flag states on Staging/Production stacks
- Prepare flag testing preparation with Engineering
- Facilitate go/no go decisions
- Manage hotfix deployment and incident reporting, including:
- Manage reporting and incident tracking
- Derive and report on metrics related to release quality and cleanliness
- Cross-functional partnership and communication, including:
- Partner with DevEx to build deployment/release dashboards and tracking quality metrics
- Partner with GTM team to ensure alignment on timelines to prepare external communications, internal enablement, and coordinated preparation for launches
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in a release management/engineering or related role
- Experience with Agile methodologies, continuous integration and development tools (CI/CD) for a SaaS product (Docker, Kubernetes, GCP/AWS, Terraform, CircleCI, ArgoCD)
- Experience with full-stack observability platforms like Splunk, Datadog, Sentry
- Ability to demonstrate strong interest in automation and continuous improvement (build, test, release/deploy, monitoring, reporting), which includes Infrastructure as Code
- Project Management experience and planning mindset - experience in managing projects, including scheduling, resource allocation, and risk management
- Proficient in using Git for version control systems and branch management
- Jira/Confluence or Linear administrator experience - creating automations, dashboards, workflows etc.
- Experience leveraging AI-powered tooling (e.g., code assistants, log analysis, anomaly detection, workflow automation) to improve release reliability, accelerate root-cause analysis, and reduce manual overhead
Benefits
- 100% health coverage for employees (medical, dental, and vision), and 75% coverage for dependents with buy-up plan options available
- Market-leading leave policies, including gender-neutral parental leave and compassionate leave
- Family forming support through Maven for you and your partner
- Paid time off - take the time you need, when you need it
- Monthly stipends for wellbeing, hybrid work, and (if applicable) cell phone use
- Mental health support through Modern Health, including therapy, coaching, and digital tools
- Pre-tax commuter benefits (US Employees)
- 401(k) plan with Fidelity with employer match (US Employees)
- Regular team events to connect, recharge, and have fun
- And most importantly: the opportunity to help build the company you want to work at
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
release managementAgile methodologiescontinuous integrationcontinuous developmentDockerKubernetesGCPAWSTerraformGit
Soft Skills
project managementrisk managementcommunicationcross-functional partnershipplanning mindsetautomation interestcontinuous improvement