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ClickUp · 1 week ago

Release Engineering Manager

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$175K/yr - $225K/yr

7+ years exp

ClickUp is a company focused on redefining the future of work with its innovative AI-powered workspace. They are seeking an experienced Release Engineering Manager to oversee the release process, ensuring safe and high-quality deployments for their platform used by millions. The role involves automating workflows, collaborating with engineering teams, and tracking release metrics to enhance product reliability and customer satisfaction.

AppsCollaborationProductivity ToolsSaaSSoftwareTask Management

No H1B

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the release process for key components of our platform, ensuring safe, high-quality, and on-time deployments to production

Automate release workflows wherever possible including validation, approvals, and rollouts to reduce manual effort and increase reliability

Implement observability and metrics in partnership with Infra and SRE, using tools like Datadog to monitor release health, stability, and deployment success

Develop and maintain playbooks, release calendars, and technical implementation plans, covering both application and infrastructure components

Plan and manage all release activities in coordination with Engineering, QA/QE, and Productivity teams across web, mobile, and desktop

Lead daily release reviews and Go/No-Go execution, including deployment plans, validation checklists, and readiness gates

Collaborate with engineering teams to assess deployment impact, automate dependency checks, and enforce best practices in CI/CD pipelines

Maintain release repositories and process automation, including feature flag governance, version tagging, and dependency tracking

Track and improve release metrics such as velocity, stability, and defect rates; build dashboards and alerting for continuous visibility and accountability

Drive production incident triage and post-mortem analysis, identifying opportunities for automation and process hardening to improve release reliability

Qualification

Release engineeringContinuous delivery (CD)CD pipelinesAgile methodologiesScripting PythonScripting BashObservability toolsProject trackingFeature flag systemsCross-functional coordination

Required

7+ years experience in release engineering and management

Strong understanding of the SDLC, including CD and release readiness

Expertise with CD pipelines based on Github Actions, Harness, Jenkins or similar

Hands-on experience with issue and project tracking techniques

Ability to coordinate cross-functionally across engineering teams and multiple time zones

Familiarity with agile methodologies, cloud-native micro-services, and DevOps best practices

Scripting experience in Python, Bash, or similar, for automation or release tooling experience with observability and dashboard tools like Grafana, Kibana, DataDog, or Tableau