Release Engineer - CI/CD Automation & Reliability

SimplePractice; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; MXN 1,059,000 - 1,324,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical, dental & vision

Work From Home stipend

Flexible Time Off

Relocation bonus

Annual bonus

Job summary

SimplePractice is seeking a Release Engineer to own and improve the systems, automation, and processes that enable reliable software delivery across our platform. This role emphasizes maintaining release infrastructure, supporting development teams, and ensuring code moves safely from commit to production.

The ideal candidate combines strong operational skills with a software engineering mindset, using automation to reduce friction, improve reliability, and enhance the developer experience.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in Release Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or a related role.
• Experience supporting CI/CD platforms in a production SaaS environment.
• Strong understanding of Git-based development workflows.
• Experience with Linux-based systems and scripting.
• Familiarity with Ruby application deployment and operational considerations.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Responsibilities

• Manage release processes across development, staging, and production environments.
• Maintain and improve deployment workflows using SemaphoreCI, event-driven services, and web and command line interfaces.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure releases are repeatable, observable, and low-risk.
• Support deployment planning, release readiness, and rollback procedures.
• Continuously identify opportunities to reduce manual release activities through automation.

Skills

Release Engineering

DevOps

Team collaboration

Communication

Tools

SemaphoreCI

Git

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

AWS

Linux

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Bash

Python

Datadog

CloudWatch

Job description

SimplePractice is seeking a Release Engineer to own and improve the systems, automation, and processes that enable reliable software delivery across our platform. This role emphasizes maintaining release infrastructure, supporting development teams, and ensuring code moves safely from commit to production.

The ideal candidate combines strong operational skills with a software engineering mindset, using automation to reduce friction, improve reliability, and enhance the developer experience.