Lead Release Engineer, AI Platform & Infrastructure

Socket.dev; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Elemynt seeks a senior release engineer to own the platform's deployment path across enterprise and scientific computing environments. You will ensure versioned, reproducible, observable deployments, bridging software engineering, infrastructure, and site reliability.

This hands-on role takes deployments from proof of concept to production, refining playbooks after each engagement. You will work across cloud and on-prem environments, improving tooling, validation, and runbooks, while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related engineering field preferred.
• 6+ years building and shipping production software with hands-on release experience.
• Strong ownership of CI/CD systems, automated tests, and versioned artifacts.
• Deep hands-on experience with container deployments and infrastructure automation.
• Experience deploying software in customer-managed or restricted enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Own release engineering for the platform, including build promotion and reproducible delivery practices.
• Build deployment tooling and automation for reliable installs and upgrades across enterprise environments.
• Design safe rollout, health checks, and recovery mechanisms for production deployments.
• Create operational visibility through logs, metrics, alerts, and secure customer workflows.
• Build controls for customer-managed installations including certificate workflows and recovery paths.
• Improve deployment reliability by debugging incidents and turning fixes into reusable automation.
• Partner with product, engineering, and customer teams to embed deployment readiness into the platform.

Skills

Release engineering

CI/CD

Automation

Container deployments

Observability

Security controls

Production readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Git

Job description

Elemynt seeks a senior release engineer to own the platform's deployment path across enterprise and scientific computing environments. You will ensure versioned, reproducible, observable deployments, bridging software engineering, infrastructure, and site reliability.

This hands-on role takes deployments from proof of concept to production, refining playbooks after each engagement. You will work across cloud and on-prem environments, improving tooling, validation, and runbooks, while