Salesforce DevOps Staff Engineer — Reliable Deployment Pipelines

Synopsys; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); On-site; USD 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Synopsys is seeking a Salesforce Release Engineer to streamline deployment pipelines using Copado, Apex, and Lightning components. You will own end-to-end release tooling and work with developers and admins to promote changes across sandboxes to production.

You will implement best practices for pipeline design, validation, and pre-deployment checks, ensuring predictable, low-risk deployments while collaborating with business stakeholders and engineers in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 2 to 5 years of experience in Salesforce development or Salesforce platform administration.
• Hands-on experience with Copado for deployment and release management, including User Stories and promotion pipelines.
• Comfort with Git-based workflows including branching, merging, resolving conflicts, and managing metadata in version control.
• Working knowledge of core Salesforce concepts including Apex, Lightning components, flows, and standard and custom object configuration.
• Understanding of Salesforce release management fundamentals including sandboxes, change sets or metadata API, and environment strategy.
• Basic scripting or automation skills such as shell scripting that help streamline deployment tasks is a plus.
• Salesforce certifications such as Administrator, Platform Developer I, or Copado certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build, configure, and maintain Salesforce deployment pipelines in Copado, including User Stories, promotion paths, and release and environment management
• Develop and maintain Salesforce customizations using Apex, Lightning components, flows, and configuration in support of DevOps tooling and internal platform needs
• Manage Git-based version control workflows for Salesforce metadata, including branching strategy, merge conflict resolution, and code promotion across environments from sandbox to production
• Coordinate and execute Salesforce deployments, working closely with developers and admins to plan releases, sequence dependencies, and minimize downtime
• Monitor deployment pipelines and troubleshoot failures, working through Copado job errors, validation failures, and metadata conflicts to keep releases on track
• Maintain sandbox environments, including refresh scheduling, seeding, and data and configuration alignment across the org landscape
• Document release processes, deployment runbooks, and Copado configuration standards so the process stays consistent as the team grows

Skills

Copado

Git

Apex

Lightning

Salesforce release management

Sandboxes

Metadata API

Tools

Copado

Git-based workflows

Salesforce metadata

Job description

Synopsys is seeking a Salesforce Release Engineer to streamline deployment pipelines using Copado, Apex, and Lightning components. You will own end-to-end release tooling and work with developers and admins to promote changes across sandboxes to production.

You will implement best practices for pipeline design, validation, and pre-deployment checks, ensuring predictable, low-risk deployments while collaborating with business stakeholders and engineers in a fast-paced environment.