Senior Release Engineer - Remote, Equity & Flexible PTO

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare - Employer contributions

Equity in the company

Flexible time off

Home office setup $500

Global gatherings

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Release Engineer to own the operational execution and software development for managing upgrades across tens of thousands of clusters. You will coordinate rolling upgrades, automate edge cases, and improve the internal tooling that makes large-scale database operations safe and repeatable.

You will work closely with core database and cloud infrastructure teams, handle on-call incidents, and contribute to building safer rollout processes using Go,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience operating stateful distributed systems in production.
• Hands-on experience running upgrades or maintenance operations on live production data stores at scale.
• Strong production debugging skills; comfortable digging into unfamiliar systems under pressure.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute rolling upgrades across tens of thousands of the company clusters, ensuring safety, correctness, and minimal customer impact
• Own the full release pipeline: from pre-upgrade validation and staged rollouts to post-upgrade monitoring and incident response
• Investigate and resolve production issues as part of a regular on-call rotation, including snowflake clusters and edge cases that automation can't yet handle
• Build and improve the internal tooling and automation that makes large-scale database operations reliable and repeatable
• Work closely with the core database and cloud infrastructure teams to identify operational pain points and turn them into solved problems
• Support and educate other engineering teams using our internal tools

Skills

Go programming

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Production debugging

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Release Engineer to own the operational execution and software development for managing upgrades across tens of thousands of clusters. You will coordinate rolling upgrades, automate edge cases, and improve the internal tooling that makes large-scale database operations safe and repeatable.

You will work closely with core database and cloud infrastructure teams, handle on-call incidents, and contribute to building safer rollout processes using Go,