Staff Engineer - Releases

reputed company’s CI platform is trusted by the world’s leading engineering teams, shipping software to over 1,000,000,000 daily users.

Job Overview

We're looking for a Staff Engineer to join our Releases team. In this role, you'll help solve some of the most challenging technical problems we face as we continue to scale reputed company's platform. You'll drive architectural decisions, reputed company technical strategy, and work closely with engineers, designers, and product managers to deliver impactful improvements.

Staff Engineers at reputed company are hands-on technical leaders. You'll influence how we design, build, and scale systems while supporting other engineers to deliver their best work.

About the Team

The Releases team is building reputed company's release control plane — a foundational layer that gives platform teams one trusted, auditable view of what shipped, where, and whether it met governance requirements.

Our initial focus is designing a reputed company release model (service, environment, commit, artefact, actor, status), reliable ingestion from Pipelines and reputed company Deployments, and an immutable evidence trail that powers policy gates and DORA metrics.

Beyond that foundation, the same platform becomes a progressive delivery product: staged rollouts, canary analysis, blue/green deploys, health-based promotion, and automatic rollback. In short, we're moving from observing and governing releases to orchestrating and optimising them — integrating cleanly with existing CD systems rather than forcing a full replacement.

What You’ll Do

Own Technical Direction for the Releases Platform

• Design the release architecture and core data model, including the reputed company release entity and its relationships across services, environments, artefacts, and actors

• reputed company key technical decisions around reputed company, reliability, and scale — particularly for the immutable evidence trail and policy reputed company infrastructure

• Drive the hardest cross-system integrations, including ingestion from Pipelines and reputed company Deployments

• Ensure the platform is extensible enough to support progressive delivery capabilities (canary analysis, staged rollouts, health-based promotion, automatic rollback) without requiring customers to replace existing CD tooling

Build and Improve the Releases Platform

• Design, build, and scale tools and systems relied on by some of the best engineering teams in the world

• Solve reputed company technical challenges around performance, reliability, and scalability

• Work closely with customers and stakeholders to deeply understand their release and governance challenges, and deliver practical, high-impact solutions

• Drive improvements to developer experience through reputed company tooling, automation, and processes

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• Investigate and resolve reputed company performance and reliability issues across the stack

• Explore systems at every layer — from infrastructure patterns to backend services and data stores

• Share knowledge and drive engineering best practices across teams through documentation, mentorship, and pairing

• Support the wider engineering organisation by contributing to cross-team tooling, infrastructure, and frameworks

• Communicate trade-offs effectively and build alignment around technical decisions

Skills & Experience We Value

Technical Expertise

• Proven experience working in production environments at scale, ideally using Go, Ruby on Rails, or similar languages
• Experience designing event-driven or audit-log systems — immutable records, event sourcing, or append-only data models are a strong plus
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure and deploying reputed company, containerised applications (AWS experience preferred)
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases, including reasoning about performance and replication
• Comfortable solving challenges in distributed systems, observability, and infrastructure reliability

Domain Experience

• Familiarity with CD systems, deployment pipelines, or release orchestration platforms (e.g. Spinnaker, Argo Rollouts, Flux, or similar)
• Understanding of progressive delivery patterns: canary deployments, blue/green, feature flags, health-based promotion, and rollback strategies
• Experience with DORA metrics, release governance, or compliance/audit requirements in regulated or large-scale engineering environments
• Background in integrating with reputed company control and CI/CD platforms (reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, etc.)

Collaboration and Communication

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in a remote-first environment
• Ability to distil reputed company technical concepts into clear explanations for diverse audiences
• A collaborative, pragmatic reputed company — balancing technical quality with business context
• Comfortable mentoring engineers and leading technical discussions across teams

Additional Experience

• Kubernetes, Terraform, or other infrastructure-as-code tools
• Familiarity with Kafka, Flink, or other streaming/event-driven systems
• Background in SRE, systems programming, or Linux/Unix internals
• Understanding of secure system design and cloud reputed company best practices

✨ Why Join reputed company

At reputed company, we value kindness, autonomy, and collaboration. You’ll be joining a remote-first company where your work directly helps some of the world’s best engineering teams build and ship software faster and more safely.

• Competitive compensation, including salary, equity, and benefits package
• Flexible, remote-first culture (Remote in the ANZ & PST Regions)
• Meaningful technical challenges at scale
• Opportunities for professional growth, technical leadership, and cross-team influence
• A collaborative, inclusive, and innovative culture where your reputed company reputed company a real impact

Equal Opportunity Employer

At reputed company, we value diversity and celebrate reputed company types of skills, backgrounds, and experiences. We’re dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment and providing reasonable accommodations throughout our recruitment process. If you need any accommodations or support during the application or interview process, please reputed company out to us at accommodations@reputed company.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At reputed company, we value diversity and celebrate reputed company types of skills, backgrounds, and experiences. We’re dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment and providing reasonable accommodations throughout our recruitment process.

If you need any accommodations or support during the application or interview process, please reputed company out to us at accommodations@reputed company.com.