Engineering Manager – Release Engineering
Zapier
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇮🇳 India
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💰 ₹6,410,000 - ₹9,620,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Lead a high-performing Release Engineering team: Recruit, mentor, and support engineers while creating a healthy, collaborative, impactful team environment.
- Improve software delivery reliability and consistency: Evolve CI/CD systems to be faster, more secure, more observable, and easier for engineers to extend and operate.
- Modernize testing and validation platforms: Partner with teams across engineering to decouple tightly coupled testing systems, improve reliability, and enable distributed contribution.
- Strengthen supply chain security: Integrate automated safeguards like artifact signing, policy enforcement, and provenance tracking into the delivery lifecycle.
- Retire bespoke infrastructure: Identify custom-built systems that can be replaced with maintainable, standardized tooling or frameworks.
- Define strategy and roadmap: Work with engineering leaders to create a clear multi-quarter plan for how the delivery ecosystem evolves.
- Drive cross-org adoption: You’ll guide engineers and teams through changes in workflows, tooling, and standards.
- Build visibility into delivery performance: Partner with engineering and data teams to develop actionable metrics around release velocity, reliability, and security.
Requirements
- You’ve led platform or infrastructure teams before: You have experience managing engineers working on CI/CD, build systems, testing frameworks, developer tooling, or platform infrastructure.
- You understand the needs of product engineers: You think about engineers as customers and build systems that scale with simplicity.
- You bring technical depth in delivery and reliability: You’ve worked with modern CI/CD architectures, artifact management, automated testing systems, and supply chain security tooling.
- You create alignment across teams: You enjoy collaborating with engineering leaders, surfacing insights, and ensuring shared platform needs are prioritized effectively.
- You communicate with clarity: You explain complex systems in simple terms.
- You care about engineering culture: You lead with empathy, create an inclusive environment, provide actionable feedback, and help engineers grow.
- Experience evolving or modernizing legacy delivery or testing systems
- Familiarity with supply chain security practices (artifact signing, SBOMs, provenance)
- Experience improving test reliability or decoupling monolithic testing frameworks
- Background building internal platforms or frameworks that serve multiple product teams.
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Offers Bonus
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
CI/CDbuild systemstesting frameworksdeveloper toolingplatform infrastructureautomated testing systemsartifact managementsupply chain securitylegacy delivery modernizationtest reliability improvement
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunicationempathyfeedbackinclusivityalignmentcustomer focusstrategic planning