Senior Release Engineer

GitLab is seeking a Senior Release Engineer to design, standardize, and operate reliable enterprise application delivery across the Enterprise Technology & AI team. The ideal candidate will combine strong release engineering and automation skills with practical experience supporting enterprise SaaS applications.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain GitLab CI/CD or comparable CI/CD pipelines for enterprise applications.
• Develop reusable automation using scripting languages such as Python.
• Use approved AI-assisted engineering tools daily for pipeline development, scripting, and troubleshooting.
• Define and implement CI/CD patterns for platforms like Salesforce, Zuora, and other Business Systems.
• Establish environment and promotion strategies across development, test, staging, and production.
• Implement quality gates, automated checks, approvals, audit trails, and policy controls.
• Partner with application owners and development teams to define branching, versioning, release cadence, and rollback standards.
• Improve release observability through deployment dashboards, pipeline metrics, and operational reporting.
• Investigate failed deployments and release issues, leading root-cause analysis and implementing corrective actions.
• Contribute to release calendars, change planning, and risk-based release decision-making.
• Build documentation, runbooks, and enablement materials for consistent delivery practices.
• Coach engineers and application teams on GitLab CI/CD, release automation, and trunk/branching strategies.
• Collaborate with security, compliance, architecture, and enterprise application stakeholders to meet control requirements.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of experience in release engineering, DevOps, or a related discipline.
• Experience in Release & deployments for enterprise SaaS applications like Salesforce, Zuora, or Business Systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with GitLab CI/CD or comparable CI/CD pipelines in production environments.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language, such as Python.
• Mandatory hands-on experience using AI-assisted development and automation tools.
• Experience with source control, branching and merging strategies, artifact management, automated testing, deployment orchestration, and rollback practices.
• Working knowledge of REST APIs, webhooks, JSON, authentication patterns, and integration troubleshooting.
• Experience managing releases across multiple environments with strong attention to configuration, dependencies, access controls, and auditability.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot pipeline failures, deployment issues, integration defects, and environment inconsistencies.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits:

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being.
• Flexible Paid Time Off.
• Team Member Resource Groups.
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Growth and Development Fund.
• Parental Leave.