About the job
We build the platform software, including a deployment API, an AI gateway to multiple frontier model providers and self-hosted models, and higher-level services such as human-in-the-loop review. We also provide AI safety tooling, such as automated red-teaming, so every application on the platform starts from a secure baseline.
What will you do?
- Track every committed story from dev-ready through release, and make stalled or aging work visible early.
- Actively drive work in progress down: help the team finish before starting, and keep work-in-progress limits honest.
- Diagnose why work is stuck at any stage, such as an unclear requirement, a pending review, an unmerged dependency, a failing pipeline, a pending infrastructure change, or missing test evidence.
- Know where to go and who to bring in to remove each barrier; you'll clear the path rather than do the engineering yourself.
- Have direct, constructive conversations with engineers when work stalls, going beyond status updates and Jira hygiene to real, meaningful unblocking support
- Run releases end to end.
- Run a weekly release train, including schedules, cutoffs, and go/no-go decisions
- Prepare releases: confirm scope, verify environment readiness, and assemble release notes.
- Run and monitor test suites, interpret the results, and confirm test evidence is in place before promotion.
- Ship releases to staging and production through our GitOps workflow, with rollback plans ready.
Manage dependencies across domains:
- Map dependencies across infrastructure, software, and safety, and flag risks before they cause delays.
- Capture the sequencing that comes out of initiative kickoffs with the architects, and hold the team to it.
Own release documentation and communication:
- Manage change control records and release evidence.
- Keep Jira and GitLab accurate, so the status of every commitment is clear without anyone having to ask.
- Tell our customer teams what's shipping and when.
Make delivery faster over time:
- Measure and improve cycle time from dev-ready to production, work in progress, throughput, release frequency, and change failure rate.
- Treat repeated manual work as a signal to automate; work with engineers to move release steps into the pipeline or to coding agents, such as test evidence, release notes, and change records.
- Adapt the delivery process as the team grows, keeping it as light as the environment allows.
Qualifications
- 5+ years in technical delivery, technical program management, release management, DevOps, or software engineering, including time on a platform, infrastructure, or developer-tools team.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD and Git-based workflows (GitLab preferred), including running test suites and reading pipeline and test output.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and GitOps deployment, enough to understand why a deployment is stuck and who can fix it.
- Experience running releases and change control in a regulated or high-governance environment.
- A track record of improving flow on a fast-moving engineering team, with examples you can quantify, such as shorter cycle times or higher release frequency.
- Clear, direct communication, and comfort holding senior engineers accountable while staying collaborative.
- A bias for action: you notice stalled work before anyone asks and follow through until it ships.
Skills
Hard Skills
CI/CDCode ReviewsContinuous Improvement
Soft Skills
CollaborationCommunicationAnalytical Thinking
Technical Expertise
DevOpsKubernetesRelease Engineer