Senior Release Engineer

Abbott • Alameda, CA

1d • $90,000 - $180,000 • Onsite

About The Position

At Lingo, we’re building a groundbreaking health platform that combines continuous biosensor data, real-time analytics, and personalized insights to help people live fuller, longer, and healthier lives. Our systems ingest millions of sensor readings daily, powering experiences for consumers and partners worldwide, with the reliability and scalability of cloud-native, enterprise-grade platforms.

This Senior Release Engineer position works onsite in our Alameda, CA location for Lingo. As a Senior Release Engineer, you will play a key role in ensuring the reliable, secure, and efficient delivery of software releases across Lingo's mobile applications, backend services, and cloud platforms. You will lead end-to-end release planning and execution, partnering with Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, QARA, Product Management, and Program Management teams to drive deployment readiness, release governance, and continuous process improvement. In this role, you will oversee release coordination across multiple teams and technologies, helping to deliver high-quality software while minimizing risk and maintaining compliance with established standards. You will also be responsible for mobile application release management, including app store submissions and publication activities for the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise with operational excellence, project leadership, and effective cross-functional collaboration. This is an opportunity to influence release strategy, advance CI/CD and automation capabilities, improve engineering efficiency, and contribute to the delivery of innovative digital health solutions that positively impact customers worldwide.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in Release Engineering, Release Management, DevOps, Software Delivery, or related technical roles.
• Strong understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Agile methodologies, and release management best practices.
• Experience managing releases in cloud-native, SaaS, mobile, or distributed software environments.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms such as Harness, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools.
• Experience with deployment automation, environment management, and release orchestration.
• Hands-on experience managing mobile application releases and submissions to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
• Strong understanding of App Store Connect, Google Play Console, app review processes, provisioning profiles, signing certificates, release approvals, phased rollouts, and mobile deployment best practices.
• Strong documentation skills with experience creating and maintaining release notes, deployment plans, runbooks, change records and operational support documentation.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and coordinate activities across globally distributed teams.
• Excellent verbal, written, and stakeholder communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting regulated environments such as healthcare, medical devices or life sciences.
• Experience implementing DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and continuous delivery practices.
• Knowledge of change management, production support, and incident management processes.
• Experience supporting global mobile application launches and coordinating app store releases across multiple regions.
• Familiarity with TestFlight, Firebase App Distribution, mobile release automation tools, and beta testing frameworks.
• Experience leading release activities across multiple products, teams, vendors, and geographic regions.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and execute software releases across website, mobile applications, backend services, data platform and cloud platforms.
• Track release activities, milestones, dependencies and action items to ensure on-time and high-quality delivery.
• Establish and maintain release records and audit-ready documentation to support compliance, traceability and operational excellence.
• Partner with engineering and QA teams to validate release readiness, quality gates, test completion, security reviews, and rollback procedures.
• Manage release dependencies, risks, deployment communications, and stakeholder expectations across multiple teams and environments.
• Coordinate mobile application release activities, including App Store and Google Play submissions, release scheduling, compliance reviews, phased rollouts, production approvals, and post-release monitoring.
• Manage end-to-end app submission processes, ensuring releases meet Apple App Store and Google Play requirements, policies, and publishing timelines.
• Support and optimize CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment reliability, efficiency, and release velocity.
• Partner with DevOps and platform teams to automate release processes and reduce manual deployment activities.
• Monitor production deployments and coordinate issue triage, incident management, and rollback activities when necessary.
• Ensure releases meet security, compliance, performance, and operational readiness standards.
• Analyze release outcomes, track deployment metrics, and drive continuous improvements to release processes, tooling, and governance.
• Collaborate with Product and Program Management teams to align release cadence with business priorities and roadmap milestones.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance on release engineering best practices across distributed engineering teams.

Benefits

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior