Engineering Manager, Release Engineering
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Full Time
3 hours ago
$146,000 - $198,000 USD
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Key skills
AWSCloudEC2GrafanaKubernetesPrometheusTerraformAIEKSArgoCDLambdaDatadogGitOps
About this role
Role Overview
- Treat Release as a Product: Define the roadmap for our deployment internal developer platform (IDP)
- Gather feedback, and build features that solve real developer pain points
- Build smart guardrails and abstractions around AWS, Kubernetes, and GitOps workflows
- Partner with cloud platform to ensure the release platform accommodates varied workflows
- Act as a key collaborator and liaison with global Samsung engineering teams
- Establish clear, shared release standards and "Golden Paths"
- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of Release and DevOps engineers
- Utilize AI-tooling to accelerate the internal developer platform
- Partner with engineering leads to champion progressive delivery practices
- Own the documentation, golden paths, and onboarding experiences
- Build automated smoke testing, canary analysis, and instant rollback mechanisms
Requirements
- 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Release Engineering
- 2+ years managing engineering teams in a platform-centric or developer-tools environment
- Bachelor's Degree in relevant field
- Customer-Centric Mindset
- Deep expertise with containerization, Kubernetes (EKS), EC2, lambda, and AWS infrastructure
- Advanced proficiency with declarative GitOps tools (e.g., ArgoCD) and continuous delivery systems
- Experience with common security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, or HIPAA (desired)
- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform (desired)
- Prior experience working specifically on Developer Experience or Internal Developer Platform (IDP) teams (desired)
- Experience optimizing release velocity for massive, highly distributed microservice architectures (desired)
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana alerts (desired)
Tech Stack
- AWS
- Cloud
- EC2
- Grafana
- Kubernetes
- Prometheus
- Terraform
Benefits
- We offer an attractive compensation package with comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and mental health
- an HSA with employer contribution
- life & disability insurance
- FSAs for health and dependent care expenses
- a competitive 401k with a 5% employer match
- unlimited PTO
- 12 paid holidays
- a generous parental leave policy (8 weeks fully paid parental leave and 8 more fully paid weeks for childbirth recovery leave)
- education reimbursement program
- access to learning resources through O’Reilly
- parking stipend to cover the monthly garage cost
- onsite gym
- in-office catered lunches on Thursdays
- EV chargers onsite