Navan · 11 hours ago
Senior Release Engineer - Platform & Delivery
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$116K/yr - $215K/yrNavan is focused on transforming the development process with AI-driven innovations. The Senior Release Engineer will architect and optimize CI/CD systems to enhance the speed and reliability of code deployments in a rapidly changing environment.
Business TravelFinancial ServicesPaymentsSoftware
Responsibilities
Architect High-Velocity Release Pipelines: Build and maintain CI/CD infrastructure designed to handle a significant increase in code volume. Optimize for "Lead Time to Production" without sacrificing safety
Ephemeral & Throwaway Testing Infrastructure: Design systems for high-volume, "disposable" test suites. As AI authors code rapidly, you will provide the compute and orchestration for ephemeral environments that run thousands of tests for a single experimental PR and then vanish
Intelligent Canary & Progressive Rollouts: Implement automated canary strategies that use real-time health signals to gate deployments. Since AI-driven code can introduce subtle regressions, your pipelines must support granular traffic shifting and automated rollbacks based on enhanced telemetry
Enhanced Monitoring & Drift Detection: Partner with Ops to build a "Shift-Left" observability culture. Integrate monitoring tools that can distinguish between traditional code bugs and behavioral drift in AI-integrated services during the release phase
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) at Scale: Own the provisioning and management of our service fleet. Manage the scaling and resource allocation for hundreds of task-specific services using modern IaC patterns (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.)
Reproducibility & Versioning: Ensure every deployment—and the specific AI context/logic that generated it—is 100% reproducible and auditable
Qualification
Required
Senior-level Release, DevOps, or Platform Engineer with deep experience in modern CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
Experience with advanced deployment patterns (Blue/Green, Canary, Feature Flags) and know how to automate the 'Go/No-Go' decision based on real-time data
Obsessed with consistency and believe that while code generation may be probabilistic, the pipeline that delivers it must be a fortress of determinism
Preferred
Comfortable building systems that handle 10x the typical PR volume and require massively parallel testing
Company
Navan
Navan provides travel, expense, and corporate card management to automate manual processes and drive spend visibility.
Founded in 2015
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.25BKey Investors
Goldman Sachs Bank USACoatueGreenoaks
2025-10-30IPO
2025-04-07Convertible Note
2022-12-08Debt Financing· $400M
Leadership Team
Ariel Cohen
CEO and Co-Founder
Carlos Avelar
Account Executive
Recent News
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