Release Automation Engineer

Job Description: The Release Automation Engineer owns the engineering of the release pipeline itself — building, hardening, and continuously improving the automated systems that take code from a completed sprint artifact to a verified production deployment.

This role owns all of the backend function of releases, including the pipelines, the gates, the promotion logic, the rollback triggers, and the integrations, that make the entire release workflow run with precision and minimal human intervention.

This role leverages AI heavily, using it to generate pipeline code, identify automation gaps, analyze failure patterns, and accelerate the engineering of smarter, self-healing release infrastructure.

Designs, builds, and owns the CI/CD pipeline infrastructure across the Engineering organization — engineering reliable, fast, and maintainable pipelines in Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions that carry artifacts from code commit through build, test, security scan, and deployment with consistency and precision.

Implements and maintains pipeline caching, parallelization, and optimization strategies that minimize build and test cycle times, ensuring pipeline speed never becomes a bottleneck to engineering delivery velocity.

Engineers the automated artifact promotion workflow across development, QA, staging, and production environments, implementing promotion logic that enforces defined quality gates, approval requirements, and compliance checks without requiring manual intervention for standard release scenarios.

Builds automated release gates that integrate quality signals from multiple sources, including unit test results, integration test outcomes, SAST/DAST security scan findings, code coverage thresholds, and performance benchmarks, blocking promotion automatically when criteria are not met.

Integrates LaunchDarkly feature flag operations into the automated release workflow, engineering pipeline steps that provision, configure, and validate feature flag states as part of the promotion process.

Builds automated rollback capabilities into the release pipeline, engineering trigger conditions, rollback execution logic, and post-rollback validation steps that enable rapid, reliable recovery from failed deployments without requiring manual intervention under pressure.Requirements: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field required.

Professional experience in CI/CD pipeline engineering, release engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering with a primary focus on release automation.

Hands-on expertise with Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Actions — including pipeline-as-code authoring, reusable template design, and multi-stage pipeline configuration for build, test, and deployment workflows.

Strong software engineering fundamentals — able to write clean, maintainable automation code and scripts in languages such as Python, PowerShell, Bash, or equivalent.

Experience building automated artifact promotion workflows with multi-environment gate logic, approval integrations, and automated rollback capabilities.

Familiarity with container build and deployment automation, including Docker image build pipelines, image scanning integration, and container registry management.

Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform or AWS CDK for environment provisioning and configuration automation. Demonstrated use of AI tools to accelerate pipeline engineering, automation scripting, or release infrastructure work.

Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills — able to diagnose pipeline failures, trace automation breakdowns across complex multi-stage workflows, and drive systematic root cause elimination.Benefits: Medical and Dental coverage available for employees, dependents, domestic partners, and spouses Paid Time Off – Flexible options plus 10 paid company holidays where available** All full-time positions are hybrid, with many eligible to be completely remote Fully Paid by Origami Risk – Vision insurance, Short & Long-Term Disability Insurance, and Basic Life Insurance Generous family leave options—including adoption and foster care placements Pre-Tax Savings Accounts – Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account, Commuter Benefits, Dependent Care Savings Account Retirement Savings – 401(k) with company match up to 4% Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – Confidential & Free support offered to colleagues facing personal or work-related complications Education Assistance Program – to help colleagues pursue industry/role-specific certifications Wellness Benefits – reimbursement program to invest in healthy habits as well as support better colleague productivity and stress management Additional coverages available – Pet Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, and Voluntary Life & AD&D coverage **Flexible PTO not available in California or the UK