[Hiring] Release Engineer @EngFlow

Role Description

As a Release Engineer, you're the person who makes sure our platform gets to them — reliably, on cadence, every week.

You'll own the full release lifecycle for EngFlow's remote execution platform:

• Cutting the release and managing phased rollouts across dozens of production clusters worldwide.
• Triage regressions, keeping CI green, and driving the operational discipline that lets the rest of the engineering team move fast.
• Work directly with a wide range of engineers, including EngFlow product engineers and Bazel contributors.

If you're interested in high-ownership work, care deeply about reliability, and want to understand a complex distributed system end-to-end, this is a role where you'll matter from day one.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the release cycle: Drive the weekly releases from branch cut to full production rollout. Manage phased deployment across rc, preview, general, and cautious tracks using Terraform and internal tooling — balancing speed with the stability our customers depend on.
• Keep production healthy: Deploy configuration changes to a global fleet of clusters, resolve Terraform drift, and ensure every cluster stays within its maintenance and certificate windows.
• Run the rotation: Each week one engineer shields the team from operational noise — that's you, on rotation. Triage the Linear queue daily, route issues to the right team, investigate customer-reported cluster problems, and facilitate the weekly Production Ops meeting.
• Own CI health: Keep the master branch green across all EngFlow-managed repositories. Hunt down flaky tests, fix what you can, and leave good context for what you can't.
• Be the connective tissue during incidents: Coordinate between engineers when production issues escalate. Deploy hotfixes and configuration changes within agreed maintenance windows, without dropping the ball on the rest of the week.
• Make the next release easier than the last: Improve runbooks, sharpen the handover process, and reduce toil — not just for yourself, but for every engineer who comes after you on rotation.

Qualifications

• Release & deployment experience: You've owned production deployments for a distributed or cloud-hosted service — you know what a bad rollout looks like and how to catch it early.
• Infrastructure as code: Hands-on Terraform experience in AWS, GCP, and other cloud providers. You're comfortable reading a plan, spotting drift, and making a call on whether to apply or revert.
• Build system familiarity: You can read a Bazel, Gradle, Maven, or CMake build and understand what's happening. You don't need to be a compiler engineer, but build failures shouldn't be a black box.
• CI/CD operations: Experience keeping a CI system healthy — investigating failures, managing flaky tests, and understanding the difference between a systemic problem and a one-off.
• Linux & shell: The shell is your natural habitat for log analysis, scripting, and debugging production issues.
• Async communication: Strong written English — you write clear updates, handover summaries, and runbooks that people actually read.
• Ownership of outcomes: Comfortable being the person the team leans on for a week at a time, and escalating when you need help.

Requirements

• Direct experience with Bazel or the Remote Execution API (REAPI).
• Programming proficiency in Java, Go, Python, or TypeScript for automation and internal tooling.
• Experience with PagerDuty and Linear (or equivalent incident and issue-tracking workflows).
• Background in platform or DevOps engineering at a product-led company.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes or container orchestration in production.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision benefits.
• 401k bonus, parental leave, and generous vacation.
• Fully remote team with several meet-ups throughout the year at exciting destinations.
• Numerous fun team events such as chocolate, whisky and tea tastings, monthly team games, escape the room, among other fun events.