Saas Release Delivery Manager

Accion Labs; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Accion Labs is seeking a Senior Software Release Manager in the Bay Area, with a 2 days-a-week onsite requirement. You will own the architecture and continuous improvement of our end-to-end release system, guiding AI-native SDLC adoption across engineering teams.

You will drive release calendars, milestones, and deployment readiness while coordinating with DevOps, QA, product, and support. The role demands strong automation skills, attention to detail, and excellent stakeholder communication.

Qualifications

• B S/BA in Computer Science or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in DevOps or release management.
• Strong knowledge of AI-native SDLC and Agile methodologies.
• Deep experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and IaC tools.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end software release architecture and AI-SDLC adoption.
• Manage release calendar, milestones, and deployment readiness.
• Coordinate across engineering, QA, DevOps, product, and support.
• Design and evolve CI/CD pipelines and release tooling.
• Enforce release governance and documentation.
• Communicate status to leadership.

Skills

Release management

DevOps

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Python scripting

Git/version control

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab

CircleCI

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Senior Software Release Manager - Bay Area CA - 2 days a week onsite

Any visa works - h1b as well

Observability & Monitoring — Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack

Python, Bash, Ruby, or similar languages for automation and troubleshooting.

Agile and AI-Native SDLC

Cloud Infrastructure — AWS/Azure/GCP, and cloud architecture/security/zingge

Advanced knowledge of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab, or CircleCI

What You’ll Do

As a technical leader, you will own the architecture and continuous improvement of the end-to-end software release system, adopting emerging industry standards and fully supporting an AI-native software development lifecycle (AI-SDLC). You will drive timely, predictable, high-quality releases across engineering teams while balancing development velocity, release stability, and deployment reliability.

Key responsibilities:

• Manage the release calendar, schedules, milestones, readiness checkpoints, and deployment coordination.
• Coordinate across engineering, QA, DevOps, product, support, and business stakeholders; manage dependencies, competing priorities, risks, and blockers through resolution.
• Design and evolve branching strategies, merge workflows, code-freeze policies, release candidate validation, and deployment-readiness practices.
• Architect and improve CI/CD pipelines, build automation, merge validation, and release tooling with engineering and DevOps, delivering measurable gains in build stability, release cadence, quality, and deployment reliability.
• Establish and enforce clearly defined release processes, governance, and accountability; continuously improve tooling, automation, and operational practices.
• Communicate release status, risks, timelines, and decisions to stakeholders and leadership.
• Ensure release documentation, approvals, accurate records, and post-release follow-ups are complete.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure management, or a similar role.
• Strong understanding of AI-native SDLC, Agile methodologies, release management, and deployment processes.
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including infrastructure management and automation.
• Advanced knowledge of branching strategies, Git/version control, release automation, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or CircleCI.
• Strong programming and scripting skills in Python, Bash, Ruby, or similar languages.
• Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Deep understanding of networking, security, and cloud architecture, including VPCs, firewalls, load balancing, authentication, and data encryption.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, performance, and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK Stack.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to resolve complex system issues and release risks.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and cross-team coordination skills, with the ability to drive accountability and maintain release discipline.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects in a fast-paced, complex engineering environment.
• Strong attention to detail, documentation discipline, and a results‑driven focus on performance, efficiency, and scalability.
• Commitment to continuous learning and emerging technologies and release engineering practices.

Highly Recommended Experience

• Technical background in DevOps, software engineering, build/release engineering, or systems operations.
• Demonstrated proficiency with modern SaaS release and DevOps tooling, including GitHub/GitLab, CI/CD platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD, Terraform, cloud deployment services, feature flagging, observability, security scanning, and AI-enabled delivery automation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.
• Experience in a global software company or high-volume production environment.