Release Engineer

Property Excellence Group; Santa Ana (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness perks

Git training

Flexible hours

Job summary

Property Excellence Group in Santa Ana, CA is hiring a Release Engineer who treats Kafka as the floor, not the ceiling. The role offers significant autonomy to shape how we build scalable, secure services using Laravel and microservices.

You will own junior Tailwind CSS workstreams, set coding standards, and optimize authentication flows while driving CA accounts back into the fold. A Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is required, with 1+ year in practice.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Customer-focused outlook with strong interpersonal skills.
• Judgment with at least 1 year of real consequences.
• Scrappy today, scalable tomorrow mindset.
• Ability to defend a recommendation before skeptics.

Responsibilities

• Own the junior Tailwind CSS workstream to unblock Santa Ana roadmap.
• Set the Microservices coding standards the team follows.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization flows using Laravel.
• Build the remote-native Laravel feature to win back CA accounts.
• Watch Microservices error budgets and prevent burnout in Santa Ana.
• Profile Kafka memory use and chase leaks on Santa Ana nodes.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Customer-focused

1+ year experience

Scrappy mindset

Defending recommendations

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kafka

Laravel

Tailwind CSS

Microservices

Job description

Picture a Release Engineer role where Kafka expertise is the floor, not the ceiling, and Property Excellence Group in Santa Ana, CA is building exactly that. Few Santa Ana employers pair $80,000 - $120,000 with this much technology autonomy, and fewer still ask only 1 years to earn it.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the junior Tailwind CSS workstream that unblocks the rest of Property Excellence Group's Santa Ana, CA roadmap
• Set the Microservices coding standards the rest of Property Excellence Group engineering follows
• Implement secure authentication and authorization flows using Laravel
• Build the remote-native Laravel feature that wins back the CA accounts Property Excellence Group lost
• Watch Microservices error budgets and pump the brakes before Santa Ana, CA burns through them
• Profile Kafka memory use and chase down the leaks crashing Santa Ana nodes

What You'll Bring

• The composure to deliver bad news early and clearly
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Customer-focused outlook with strong interpersonal skills
• Judgment seasoned by at least 1 years of real consequences
• A Property Excellence Group mindset: scrappy today, scalable tomorrow
• Comfort defending a recommendation in front of skeptics

Anchored in Santa Ana, CA, Property Excellence Group designs the kind of feedback-driven systems that technology teams quietly depend on every single day. The unwritten rule in Santa Ana is simple: leave the codebase kinder than you found it.

Money matters, so we lead with $80,000 - $120,000; then come the wellness perks, the Git training, and hours you actually control.

Live feed: the Santa Ana, CA role remains unfilled and actively recruiting.