Release Engineer

StartupEdge; Santa Clara (CA); Remote; USD 155,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement matching

Coaching for senior goals

Job summary

StartupEdge is seeking a senior Release Engineer in Santa Clara, CA to optimize deployment workflows and ensure reliable production after changes. You will work with a team that values pragmatic problem solving and clear communication.

Proficiency with Kafka, Linux-based deployments, and incident response is required. The role offers a salary range of $155,000–$227,000 with remote flexibility and coaching for senior goals.

Qualifications

• A bias toward asking questions to avoid expensive mistakes.
• A learner's pace that keeps up with shifting requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Track record that proves you can problem-solving ship under deadline pressure.
• The kind of listening that makes the other person feel heard.

Responsibilities

• Decide when to buy Stakeholder Management versus build it for StartupEdge's Santa Clara, CA stack.
• Ship Stakeholder Management fixes to StartupEdge customers in Santa Clara, CA the same day they report them.
• Cut Public Speaking cold-start times so StartupEdge functions wake before CA users notice.
• Carry features from whiteboard sketch to Santa Clara, CA production without dropping the baton.
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents across Linux-based applications.

Skills

Communication

Problem-solving

Learning agility

Team player

Tools

Kafka

Linux

Job description

Bring your Kafka fluency, your suspicion of clever one-liners, and your resume to our Release Engineer opening at StartupEdge. Weigh it however you like — the math still lands at $155,000 - $227,000, contract hours, and a team at StartupEdge worth joining.

Key Responsibilities

• Decide when to buy Stakeholder Management versus build it for StartupEdge's Santa Clara, CA stack
• Ship Stakeholder Management fixes to StartupEdge customers in Santa Clara, CA the same day they report them
• Cut Public Speaking cold-start times so StartupEdge functions wake before CA users notice
• Carry features from whiteboard sketch to Santa Clara, CA production without dropping the baton
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents across Linux-based applications

What You'll Bring

• A bias toward asking the dumb question before the expensive mistake
• A learner's pace that keeps up with shifting requirements
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Track record that proves you can problem-solving ship under deadline pressure
• The kind of listening that makes the other person feel heard

From its base in Santa Clara, CA, StartupEdge has spent the last decade making Kafka dramatically less painful for technology teams everywhere. We keep ego out of code review and let the Linux argument win on its merits.

The offer includes $155,000 - $227,000, remote flexibility, retirement matching, and coaching tailored to your senior goals.

The search for a senior Release Engineer is in full swing, and we want to fill it soon.

We're looking for the person who reads technology job posts and thinks I could fix that.