Staff Release Engineer

Ridgeline•San Ramon, CA

2h•$174,000 - $220,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Are you a systems thinker who thrives on creating seamless, scalable software delivery workflows? Do you enjoy partnering across engineering teams to build robust pipelines that enable high-velocity and high-quality releases? Are you passionate about developer experience and eager to optimize how code gets to production safely and efficiently? If so, we invite you to be a part of our innovative team. As a Staff Release Engineer at Ridgeline, you will own and evolve the systems, tools, and processes that underpin our software delivery lifecycle. Your work will drive efficiency, reliability, and visibility across engineering, making you a force multiplier for product delivery. You'll collaborate closely with Infrastructure, SRE, and Engineering teams to architect resilient CI/CD pipelines, implement automated quality gates, and reduce friction across all deployment paths. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies—including AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT—you’ll help accelerate delivery while reducing risk and complexity. At Ridgeline, how we work matters as much as what we build. Ridgeliners act like owners, choose growth over comfort, and communicate with transparency. We assume positive intent, bias toward action, and bring solutions—not just problems. We celebrate wins, learn from setbacks, and thrive in a resilient, collaborative, high-performing culture. If this excites you, we’d love to meet you. You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.

Requirements

4+ years in Release Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering roles
Expertise with CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or Spinnaker
Strong scripting or coding skills (e.g., Python, Go, Bash) and IaC experience with tools like Terraform or Helm
Deep understanding of release strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling) and artifact/versioning systems
Passion for automation, testing, and scalable system design
Experience with Kubernetes and modern cloud-native infrastructure
Familiarity with observability tools and release health metrics
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
Serious interest in having fun at work

Nice To Haves

Experience in high-availability or regulated environments such as finance or healthcare
Familiarity with Google SRE principles or equivalent operational excellence models
Background in driving the adoption of DevOps metrics (DORA, MTTR, deployment frequency)

Responsibilities

Design, maintain, and optimize CI/CD systems to enable scalable, repeatable, and safe delivery
Establish and enforce release standards such as artifact validation, test coverage thresholds, and dependency checks
Collaborate with SRE and Infrastructure teams to create automated and consistent release workflows
Implement observability and rollback capabilities to improve release visibility and safety
Develop systems to prevent risky changes and support faster mean time to recovery
Create self-service tools that empower developers and reduce deployment friction
Define and report on release metrics that drive transparency and continuous improvement
Champion a product mindset for internal tools by deeply understanding the needs of developer teams