Senior SaaS Software Release Manager

SATCON Inc; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SATCON Inc. is seeking a Senior SaaS Software Release Manager in the Bay Area (Hybrid). You will own the architecture and continuous improvement of the end-to-end software release system, supporting an AI-native software development lifecycle (AI-SDLC).

You will drive timely, high-quality releases across engineering teams while balancing velocity, stability, and deployment reliability. Responsibilities include managing release calendars, coordinating across stakeholders, and refining CI/CD

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps, cloud infra, or similar
• Strong knowledge of AI-native SDLC and release processes
• Proficiency with AWS/Azure/GCP and infra automation
• Experience with Git-based workflows and CI/CD tooling
• Strong scripting (Python, Bash, Ruby) and code-freeze policies

Responsibilities

• Manage release calendar, milestones, readiness, and deployment coordination
• Coordinate across engineering, QA, DevOps, product, support, and business stakeholders
• Design and evolve branching strategies, merge workflows, and release readiness practices
• Architect and improve CI/CD pipelines and release tooling
• Establish release processes, governance, and cross-team accountability
• Communicate release status, risks, timelines, and decisions to leadership
• Ensure release documentation, approvals, and post-release follow-ups

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Cross-team coordination

Release management

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

GitLab

Jenkins

CircleCI

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Argo CD

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Job description

Senior SaaS Software Release Manager

Location: Bay Area, CA - Hybrid Work
Contract Duration: 6+ Months

Own the architecture and continuous improvement of the end-to-end software release system, adopting emerging industry standards and fully supporting an AI-native software development lifecycle (AI-SDLC). What You'll DoAs a technical leader, you will own the architecture and continuous improvement of the end-to-end software release system, adopting emerging industry standards and fully supporting an AI-native software development lifecycle (AI-SDLC). You will drive timely, predictable, high-quality releases across engineering teams while balancing development velocity, release stability, and deployment reliability.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the release calendar, schedules, milestones, readiness checkpoints, and deployment coordination.
• Coordinate across engineering, QA, DevOps, product, support, and business stakeholders; manage dependencies, competing priorities, risks, and blockers through resolution.
• Design and evolve branching strategies, merge workflows, code-freeze policies, release candidate validation, and deployment-readiness practices.
• Architect and improve CI/CD pipelines, build automation, merge validation, and release tooling with engineering and DevOps, delivering measurable gains in build stability, release cadence, quality, and deployment reliability.
• Establish and enforce clearly defined release processes, governance, and accountability; continuously improve tooling, automation, and operational practices.
• Communicate release status, risks, timelines, and decisions to stakeholders and leadership.
• Ensure release documentation, approvals, accurate records, and post-release follow-ups are complete.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure management, or a similar role.
• Strong understanding of AI-native SDLC, Agile methodologies, release management, and deployment processes.
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, including infrastructure management and automation.
• Advanced knowledge of branching strategies, Git/version control, release automation, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or CircleCI.
• Strong programming and scripting skills in Python, Bash, Ruby, or similar languages.
• Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Deep understanding of networking, security, and cloud architecture, including VPCs, firewalls, load balancing, authentication, and data encryption.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, performance, and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK Stack.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to resolve complex system issues and release risks.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and cross-team coordination skills, with the ability to drive accountability and maintain release discipline.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects in a fast-paced, complex engineering environment.
• Strong attention to detail, documentation discipline, and a results-driven focus on performance, efficiency, and scalability.
• Commitment to continuous learning and emerging technologies and release engineering practices.

Highly Recommended Experience

• Technical background in DevOps, software engineering, build/release engineering, or systems operations.
• Demonstrated proficiency with modern SaaS release and DevOps tooling, including GitHub/GitLab, CI/CD platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD, Terraform, cloud deployment services, feature flagging, observability, security scanning, and AI-enabled delivery automation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.
• Experience in a global software company or high-volume production environment.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, or similar certification.

Requirements added by the job poster

• Bachelor's Degree
• 10+ years of work experience with Python (Programming Language)
• 5+ years of work experience with Software as a Service (SaaS)