Engineering Manager, Release Engineering

SmartThings

Release Engineering Manager improving developer lifecycle for SmartThings' IoT platform. Leading engineering teams to enhance deployment processes and empower developers.

Posted 7/2/2026full-timeMinneapolis • Minnesota • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $146,000 - $198,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudEC2GrafanaKubernetesPrometheusTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Treat Release as a Product: Define the roadmap for our deployment internal developer platform (IDP)
Gather feedback, and build features that solve real developer pain points
Build smart guardrails and abstractions around AWS, Kubernetes, and GitOps workflows
Partner with cloud platform to ensure the release platform accommodates varied workflows
Act as a key collaborator and liaison with global Samsung engineering teams
Establish clear, shared release standards and "Golden Paths"
Manage, mentor, and grow a team of Release and DevOps engineers
Utilize AI-tooling to accelerate the internal developer platform
Partner with engineering leads to champion progressive delivery practices
Own the documentation, golden paths, and onboarding experiences
Build automated smoke testing, canary analysis, and instant rollback mechanisms

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Release Engineering
2+ years managing engineering teams in a platform-centric or developer-tools environment
Bachelor's Degree in relevant field
Customer-Centric Mindset
Deep expertise with containerization, Kubernetes (EKS), EC2, lambda, and AWS infrastructure
Advanced proficiency with declarative GitOps tools (e.g., ArgoCD) and continuous delivery systems
Experience with common security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, or HIPAA (desired)
Strong hands-on experience with Terraform (desired)
Prior experience working specifically on Developer Experience or Internal Developer Platform (IDP) teams (desired)
Experience optimizing release velocity for massive, highly distributed microservice architectures (desired)
Familiarity with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana alerts (desired)

Benefits

Comp & perks

We offer an attractive compensation package with comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and mental health
an HSA with employer contribution
life & disability insurance
FSAs for health and dependent care expenses
a competitive 401k with a 5% employer match
unlimited PTO
12 paid holidays
a generous parental leave policy (8 weeks fully paid parental leave and 8 more fully paid weeks for childbirth recovery leave)
education reimbursement program
access to learning resources through O’Reilly
parking stipend to cover the monthly garage cost
onsite gym
in-office catered lunches on Thursdays
EV chargers onsite

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Hard Skills & Tools

Release EngineeringContainerizationTerraformAutomated TestingContinuous Delivery Systems

Soft Skills

Customer-Centric MindsetCollaborationMentoring

Certifications

Bachelor's Degree