Staff Engineer - Releases (Fully Remote)

Unknown; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

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Salary

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Job summary

Unknown is building a foundational release control platform used by leading engineering teams to ship software safely and efficiently. The company fosters a collaborative, remote-first culture with significant autonomy and opportunities for technical leadership.

You will shape the releases platform's technical direction, including canonical release models and governance, and work to scale tools that support large-scale engineering and reliable software delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building production systems at scale.
• Experience designing event-driven or audit-log systems with immutable records.
• Strong cloud infrastructure knowledge, preferably AWS.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and architecture of the releases platform and its relationships between services, environments, commits, artifacts and actors.
• Lead key technical decisions around security, reliability, scalability and governance.
• Build and improve tools and systems that support large-scale engineering teams and critical software delivery workflows.

Skills

Release platform architecture

Security and governance

Leadership

Tools

Go

Ruby on Rails

AWS

Job description

• You will shape a foundational release control platform used by leading engineering teams to ship software safely and efficiently.
• You'll own technical direction across release architecture, data models, integrations, governance, and progressive delivery capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the technical direction and architecture of the releases platform, including the canonical release model and relationships between services, environments, commits, artifacts, and actors.
• Lead key technical decisions around security, reliability, scalability, immutable evidence trails, policy gates, and release governance.
• Build, scale, and improve tools and systems that support large-scale engineering teams and critical software delivery workflows.

Requirements:

• Proven experience building and operating production systems at scale, ideally with Go, Ruby on Rails, or comparable technologies.
• Strong experience designing event-driven or audit-log systems, including immutable records, event sourcing, or append-only data models.
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure and containerized applications, with AWS experience preferred.
• Competitive compensation package including salary, equity, and benefits.
• Flexible, remote-first working environment with remote work available across ANZ and US-Pacific regions.
• Opportunities for professional growth, technical leadership, and significant autonomy.

Unknown

This company builds a foundational release control platform used by leading engineering teams to ship software safely and efficiently. It fosters a collaborative, inclusive, and remote-first culture, with significant autonomy and opportunities for technical leadership.