Senior Software Engineer - Release Manager

Role Description

As a Release Manager, you will oversee the planning, coordination, and delivery of embedded truck software and cloud application releases across the department. You will work cross-functionally with development, testing, DevOps, and product teams to ensure releases are delivered on schedule, meet quality and compliance standards, and align with departmental objectives and business priorities. The role includes managing release timelines, deployment readiness, risk mitigation, change control, and cross-stakeholder communication to support reliable and scalable software delivery.

• Coordinate release planning and execution activities across Engineering, QA, DevOps, Product, Cybersecurity, and Operations teams to ensure the successful delivery of embedded truck software and cloud applications.
• Manage release schedules, deployment timelines, and milestones.
• Ensure release readiness through validation of testing results, compliance checks, documentation reviews, and stakeholder approvals.
• Lead go/no-go decision meetings, release status reviews, and post-release retrospectives to drive accountability and continuous improvement.
• Oversee production deployments, rollback strategies, and contingency planning to minimize operational risk and service disruption.
• Identify, track, and mitigate release risks, cross-team dependencies, and change management impacts throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Partner with DevOps and infrastructure teams to enhance CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, monitoring, and release reliability.
• Support process improvement initiatives focused on release governance, standardization, tooling optimization, and operational efficiency.
• Manage multiple concurrent releases across development, testing, staging, and production environments while maintaining delivery quality and schedule alignment.
• Monitor post-release performance, defects, and incidents, and coordinate resolution efforts to ensure system stability and customer satisfaction.
• Maintain clear communication with stakeholders by providing release status updates, deployment metrics, risk assessments, and escalation management.
• Contribute to the development and enforcement of release management best practices, policies, and operational procedures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field with 5+ years of professional experience in Release Management, Program Management, or Software Delivery.
• Strong understanding of modern software development methodologies, including Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience coordinating complex software releases across cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with release and deployment tools such as Jenkins, Jira, GitHub Actions, Octopus Deploy, or similar platforms.
• Strong project management, organizational, and prioritization skills.
• Experience managing multiple releases and environments simultaneously.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Strong problem-solving and risk management skills.
• Experience facilitating release readiness reviews, deployment coordination, and post-mortem discussions.

Preferred Skills

• Experience managing software releases within cloud-based environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Familiarity with infrastructure automation, configuration management, and deployment orchestration tools and practices.
• Experience supporting enterprise SaaS platforms, embedded systems, or large-scale distributed application environments.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps methodologies, and release automation frameworks.
• Understanding of change management, release governance, compliance, and operational risk management processes.
• Ability to analyze release metrics, troubleshoot deployment issues, and coordinate cross-functional resolution efforts.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, organizational, and problem-solving skills in fast-paced technical environments.
• Experience working within Agile, Scrum, or scaled Agile delivery models.
• Scrum Master, PMP, Agile, or related project and release management certifications are considered a plus.

Benefits

• A competitive compensation package that includes a bonus component and stock options.
• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees.
• 401K plan with a 6% employer match.
• Flexibility in schedule and generous paid vacation (available immediately after start date).
• AD+D and Life Insurance.