Release Engineer

Your mission

The Release Engineer / Technical Release Manager is the technical coordination point that turns completed engineering work into reliable, repeatable releases. The role combines hands-on understanding of source control, branching, builds and delivery pipelines with strong cross-team coordination. You will work closely with engineering teams, Project Managers, Scrum teams, QA and IT to make releases smooth, traceable and increasingly automated.

Your profile

Duties and responsibilities

Release Coordination & Readiness

• Coordinate end-to-end software releases across multiple engineering teams and environments
• Build and maintain release plans together with Project Managers, Product stakeholders, Scrum teams, QA and IT
• Track release scope, dependencies, readiness criteria, risks and outstanding actions
• Coordinate integration, regression, UAT and deployment readiness activities with the responsible teams
• Ensure release packages, versions, documentation and handover information are complete and traceable
• Coordinate deployment windows and production rollout activities with IT and other operational stakeholders
• Support post-release verification, issue coordination and lessons learned

Branching, Source Control & Build Engineering

• Support engineering teams with Git branching, merging, versioning and release-branch practices
• Help resolve branch, integration and build issues that block releases
• Coordinate and, where appropriate, execute or troubleshoot software builds and release packaging
• Maintain clear version and artifact traceability from source code to deployed release
• Work with development teams to simplify branching strategies and reduce avoidable integration overhead

CI/CD, Automation & DevOps Collaboration

• Work closely with DevOps / Platform Engineering and IT on CI/CD pipelines, build automation and deployment processes
• Identify repetitive or error-prone release activities and help drive their automation
• Support improvements to quality gates, automated tests, artifact handling and deployment reliability
• Contribute practical release-engineering input to the organization's DevOps maturity journey
• Use delivery data and DORA-related measures - such as deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate and recovery time - to identify concrete opportunities for improving the release process
• Support the transition from large release events toward smaller, more frequent and higher-confidence releases

Cross-Team Collaboration & Operational Excellence

• Act as a pragmatic bridge between developers, Scrum teams, Project Managers, QA, DevOps / Platform Engineering and IT
• Make release dependencies, blockers and technical risks visible early and drive them to resolution with the responsible owners
• Create and improve lightweight release procedures, checklists and standards without introducing unnecessary bureaucracy
• Promote ownership, transparency and continuous improvement around software delivery
• Share release knowledge and help teams become increasingly self-sufficient in reliable delivery practices

Required Qualifications, Experience & Competencies
Technical Foundation

• 3+ years of experience in release engineering, software engineering, build engineering, DevOps, technical release management or a closely related role
• Strong practical understanding of Git-based source control, branching, merging, tagging and versioning
• Hands-on understanding of software build processes and CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to investigate and troubleshoot build, integration and release issues together with engineers
• Good understanding of software delivery lifecycles across development, test and production environments
• Comfort working across different technology stacks and hybrid infrastructure environments; deep expertise in one specific programming language is not required

Delivery & Collaboration

• Experience coordinating releases or technical deliveries involving multiple teams and stakeholders
• Ability to work effectively with Project Managers, Scrum teams, developers, QA, DevOps / Platform Engineering and IT operations
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to maintain clarity under release pressure
• Structured problem-solving mindset and willingness to get hands-on when a release is blocked
• Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to translate technical release issues for non-specialist stakeholders
• Ownership mentality and a strong bias toward reliability, automation and continuous improvement
• English proficiency (written and spoken)

Modern Engineering Mindset

• Understanding of DevOps and continuous delivery principles
• Interest in improving engineering flow and release performance using measurable outcomes
• Pragmatic approach: improve the system step by step while keeping current releases moving
• Curiosity toward automation, developer tooling and AI-assisted engineering …