Salesforce Release Architect

Maven Companies; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Maven Companies seeks an experienced Release Engineer to lead end-to-end release activities across Salesforce environments, ensuring timely, controlled deployments. You will coordinate schedules, validate changes, and maintain release documentation while aligning with governance standards.

You will also manage packaging, metadata deployments, and sandbox activities, while leveraging GitLab CI/CD, YAML pipelines, and robust troubleshooting to reduce risks and improve automation within a

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Release Engineering, DevOps, or Release Management roles.
• Hands-on experience supporting Salesforce Service Cloud release processes.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce deployment concepts and environment management.
• Experience with package creation and deployment activities.
• Strong working knowledge of Git source control and branching strategies.
• Experience resolving merge conflicts and supporting merge request workflows.
• Experience with cherry-picking, branch protection, release branch management, and version control best practices.
• Hands-on experience with GitLab and CI/CD pipeline execution.
• Experience maintaining and troubleshooting YAML-based pipeline configurations.
• Experience managing Salesforce sandboxes and environment refresh activities.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, distributed team environment.

Responsibilities

• Execute end-to-end release activities across Salesforce environments, ensuring timely deployments.
• Coordinate release schedules, deployment windows, and environment readiness with cross-functional teams.
• Manage deployments across development, QA, UAT, staging, and production environments.
• Support release cutover planning, deployment validation, rollback preparedness, and post-deployment verification.
• Ensure release activities adhere to governance standards and processes.
• Maintain deployment documentation, release records, and calendars.
• Perform package creation, validation, and deployment across environments.
• Validate deployment readiness by confirming code quality and approvals.
• Coordinate release dependencies and assess deployment risks.
• Support Salesforce seasonal release readiness planning and impacts.

Skills

Release Engineering

DevOps

Release Management

Salesforce Service Cloud

Salesforce deployments

Git branching strategies

GitLab CI/CD

Yaml pipelines

Sandbox management

Troubleshooting

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Git

GitLab

CI/CD pipelines

YAML

Salesforce deployment tools

Job description

Maven Companies seeks an experienced Release Engineer to lead end-to-end release activities across Salesforce environments, ensuring timely, controlled deployments. You will coordinate schedules, validate changes, and maintain release documentation while aligning with governance standards.

You will also manage packaging, metadata deployments, and sandbox activities, while leveraging GitLab CI/CD, YAML pipelines, and robust troubleshooting to reduce risks and improve automation within a