Senior Release Engineer — Scale Deployments & Own RC Process

Assured; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity package

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Family leave

401(k) with company match

Flexible Spending Accounts

Job summary

Assured is actively seeking a Senior Release Engineer in the United States to own the deployment pipeline and automate deployments across dev, staging, and production. You will guide architecture, tooling, and governance for reliable releases using AWS, GitLab CI/CD, and TypeScript-based applications.

You will mentor engineers, coordinate with product teams and QA for release readiness, and enforce rollback and verification processes to minimize risk and maximize uptime.

Qualifications

• Experience in software deployment role for a fast growing product team.
• Proficiency with GitLab CI/CD, including pipelines, runners, and automated testing integrations.
• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience deploying and managing TypeScript-based applications in production environments.
• Deep understanding of release management processes, including version control, branching strategies, and rollback procedures.
• 5+ years of experience in release management, application deployment, or DevOps-related roles.
• Expertise with git and observability tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage automated deployment pipelines.
• Act as the primary point of contact for deployment readiness, working with product teams, developers, QA, and SRE teams.
• Optimize system performance and ensure high availability.
• Troubleshoot deployment issues and perform root cause analysis.
• Mentor engineers on best deployment practices.
• Own the Release Candidate (RC) process and ensure builds meet quality criteria.
• Oversee certification and validation in dev, staging, and production environments.
• Coordinate and execute out-of-cycle or emergency deployments.

Skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Leadership

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

TypeScript

Job description

Assured is actively seeking a Senior Release Engineer in the United States to own the deployment pipeline and automate deployments across dev, staging, and production. You will guide architecture, tooling, and governance for reliable releases using AWS, GitLab CI/CD, and TypeScript-based applications.

You will mentor engineers, coordinate with product teams and QA for release readiness, and enforce rollback and verification processes to minimize risk and maximize uptime.