Senior Release Engineer: Cloud, Mobile & CI/CD Innovator

Abbott; Alameda (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Medical coverage

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Education benefit

Job summary

This Senior Release Engineer position works onsite in our Alameda, CA location for Lingo. As a Senior Release Engineer, you will lead end-to-end release planning and execution across mobile apps, backend services, and cloud platforms, partnering with Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, QARA, Product Management, and Program Management teams to drive deployment readiness and governance.

You will coordinate release activities, ensure compliance with standards, manage app store submissions for Apple

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in CS or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Release Engineering, Release Management, DevOps, Software Delivery, or related roles.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies, and release management best practices.
• Experience managing releases in cloud-native, SaaS, mobile, or distributed software environments.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms such as Harness, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools.
• Experience with deployment automation, environment management, and release orchestration.
• Hands-on experience managing mobile app releases and submissions to Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
• Strong knowledge of App Store Connect, Google Play Console, app review processes, provisioning profiles, signing certificates, release approvals, phased rollouts, and mobile deployment best practices.
• Strong documentation skills with experience creating and maintaining release notes, deployment plans, runbooks, change records and operational support documentation.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and coordinate activities across globally distributed teams.
• Excellent verbal, written, and stakeholder communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and execute software releases across website, mobile applications, backend services, data platform and cloud platforms.
• Track release activities, milestones, dependencies and action items to ensure on-time and high-quality delivery.
• Establish and maintain release records and audit-ready documentation to support compliance, traceability and operational excellence.
• Partner with engineering and QA teams to validate release readiness, quality gates, test completion, security reviews, and rollback procedures.
• Manage release dependencies, risks, deployment communications, and stakeholder expectations across multiple teams and environments.
• Coordinate mobile application release activities, including App Store and Google Play submissions, release scheduling, compliance reviews, phased rollouts, production approvals, and post-release monitoring.
• Manage end-to‑end app submission processes, ensuring releases meet Apple App Store and Google Play requirements, policies, and publishing timelines.
• Support and optimize CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment reliability, efficiency, and release velocity.
• Partner with DevOps and platform teams to automate release processes and reduce manual deployment activities.
• Monitor production deployments and coordinate issue triage, incident management, and rollback activities when necessary.
• Ensure releases meet security, compliance, performance, and operational readiness standards.
• Analyze release outcomes, track deployment metrics, and drive continuous improvements to release processes, tooling, and governance.
• Collaborate with Product and Program Management teams to align release cadence with business priorities and roadmap milestones.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance on release engineering best practices across distributed engineering teams.

Skills

Release engineering

CI/CD

Communication

DevOps practices

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud-native / SaaS experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Harness

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

App Store Connect

Google Play Console

Job description

This Senior Release Engineer position works onsite in our Alameda, CA location for Lingo. As a Senior Release Engineer, you will lead end-to-end release planning and execution across mobile apps, backend services, and cloud platforms, partnering with Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, QARA, Product Management, and Program Management teams to drive deployment readiness and governance.

You will coordinate release activities, ensure compliance with standards, manage app store submissions for Apple