What you'll own

• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, reliable, and secure deployments.

• Define and implement release readiness standards, including automated checks, rollback strategies, and deployment validation.

• Collaborate with product engineering to ensure new features meet operational and release criteria.

• Build tooling and automation to streamline build, test, and release workflows.

• Improve observability and traceability of releases across environments.

• Partner with other SREs, platform and operations teams to ensure infrastructure supports scalable and resilient deployments.

• Lead post-release reviews and participate in incident retrospectives to drive continuous improvement.

• Participate in on-call rotations to support critical releases and troubleshoot deployment issues.

• Guiding product engineering teams on how to achieve operational excellence for new product and feature launches.

• Proactively find and analyze reliability problems across our stack, design and implement software to create solutions that are secure, scalable and highly available.

What you bring

• An operational mindset and a drive to achieve operational excellence with at least 7+ years of in software/system engineering with a focus on build and release.

• Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI).

• Strong understanding of release management, deployment strategies, and rollback mechanisms.

• Experience with AWS and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes).

• Proficiency in PHP/C# and scripting languages for automation.

• Familiarity with observability tools (e.g., Datadog, OpenTelemetry) to monitor release health.

• Experience implementing SLI/SLO/SLA frameworks to measure release success.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across cross-functional teams.

• You have strong skills around observability, debugging and performance tuning

• Ability to perform capacity planning and ensure an architecture is scalable to support fluctuating volumes

• Understanding of implementing solutions to reduce service disruptions and improving MTTD/MTTR

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

• Ability to work collaboratively across many teams influencing decisions and setting standards

• This role requires on-call availability to ensure swift resolution of issues outside regular business hours

Bonus if you have

• Experience designing and building reliable systems capable of handling high throughput and low latency

• Experience with feature flagging, canary deployments, and blue-green release strategies.

• Familiarity with PHP, TypeScript, Node.js.

• Exposure to multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).

• Experience in fast-paced, high-growth environments.

• Positive outlook, strong work ethic, and responsive to internal and external clients.