Senior AI-SDLC Release Architect for SaaS

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

Job summary

Accion Labs is seeking a Senior SaaS Software Release Manager in the Bay Area. You will own the architecture and continuous improvement of the end-to-end release system, supporting an AI-native SDLC and driving high-quality releases across engineering teams.

You will coordinate across stakeholders, design branching strategies, and enhance CI/CD tooling, ensuring release discipline and visibility. This role combines leadership with hands-on technical delivery in a fast-paced SaaS environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.
• 7+ years in DevOps, cloud infra management, or similar role.
• Strong understanding of AI-native SDLC, Agile, release management and deployment.
• Deep expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP incl. infra automation.
• Knowledge of branching strategies, Git, release automation, CI/CD tools.
• Strong programming/scripting in Python, Bash, or Ruby.
• Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes and IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible).
• Understanding of networking, security, and cloud architecture.
• Experience with monitoring/logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Excellent communication and cross-team coordination.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and continuous improvement of the end-to-end software release system.
• Drive timely, predictable releases across engineering teams with reliability.
• Manage the release calendar, milestones, readiness checkpoints, deployments.
• Coordinate across engineering, QA, DevOps, product, support, and business stakeholders.
• Design and evolve branching strategies, merge workflows, and release readiness.
• Architect and improve CI/CD pipelines and release tooling.
• Establish and enforce release processes, governance, and accountability.
• Communicate release status, risks, timelines, and decisions to stakeholders.
• Ensure release documentation, approvals, and post-release follow-ups are complete.

Skills

Release management

DevOps leadership

Agile methodologies

Cross-team coordination

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Information Technology

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab

CircleCI

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Argo CD

Helm

Job description

Accion Labs is seeking a Senior SaaS Software Release Manager in the Bay Area. You will own the architecture and continuous improvement of the end-to-end release system, supporting an AI-native SDLC and driving high-quality releases across engineering teams.

You will coordinate across stakeholders, design branching strategies, and enhance CI/CD tooling, ensuring release discipline and visibility. This role combines leadership with hands-on technical delivery in a fast-paced SaaS environment.