Staff Engineer - Releases

Accountabilities

• • Own the technical direction and architecture of the releases platform, including the canonical release model and relationships between services, environments, commits, artifacts, and actors.
  • Lead key technical decisions around security, reliability, scalability, immutable evidence trails, policy gates, and release governance.
  • Drive complex integrations with CI, source control, and deployment systems, including ingestion from pipelines and Git-based deployment platforms.
  • Design systems that can support progressive delivery capabilities such as canary analysis, blue/green deployments, staged rollouts, health-based promotion, and automated rollback.
  • Build, scale, and improve tools and systems that support large-scale engineering teams and critical software delivery workflows.
  • Investigate and resolve complex performance, reliability, and scalability challenges across infrastructure, backend services, and data stores.
  • Work directly with customers and stakeholders to understand release and governance challenges and translate them into practical, high-impact technical solutions.
  • Improve developer experience through better tooling, automation, self-service workflows, and engineering processes.
  • Share technical knowledge through documentation, mentoring, pairing, and engineering best practices.
  • Contribute to cross-team tooling, infrastructure, and engineering frameworks.
  • Communicate technical trade-offs clearly and build alignment around important architectural and engineering decisions.

  Requirements

  • Proven experience building and operating production systems at scale, ideally with Go, Ruby on Rails, or comparable technologies.
  • Strong experience designing event-driven or audit-log systems, including immutable records, event sourcing, or append-only data models.
  • Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure and complex containerized applications, with AWS experience preferred.
  • Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL or similar relational databases, including performance and replication considerations.
  • Experience solving distributed systems, observability, infrastructure reliability, and scalability challenges.
  • Hands-on experience building or operating deployment and release-orchestration platforms that safely move changes from merge to production and model deployment state.
  • Familiarity with CD and deployment platforms such as Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, Spinnaker, Flux, or similar technologies.
  • Experience with workflow orchestration engines such as Temporal or comparable systems for coordinating complex, multi-step deployments.
  • Deep understanding of progressive delivery practices, including canary deployments and analysis, blue/green releases, staged and phased rollouts, feature flags, health-based promotion, and automated rollback.
  • Experience designing unified, self-service deployment workflows used across multiple teams or business units while maintaining appropriate guardrails and governance.
  • Experience with DORA metrics, release governance, compliance, or audit requirements in large-scale or regulated engineering environments.
  • Experience integrating source control and CI/CD platforms such as GitHub, GitLab, or comparable systems.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly within remote-first environments.
  • Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Collaborative and pragmatic approach, balancing technical quality with business context.
  • Comfortable mentoring engineers and leading technical discussions across teams.
  • Additional experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, infrastructure-as-code, Kafka, Flink, SRE practices, systems programming, Linux/Unix internals, or cloud security is valuable.

  Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package including salary, equity, and benefits.
  • Flexible, remote-first working environment.
  • Remote work available across the ANZ and US-Pacific regions.
  • Meaningful technical challenges involving large-scale engineering and software delivery systems.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and technical leadership.
  • Opportunities to influence engineering practices and initiatives across teams.
  • Collaborative, inclusive, and innovative working culture.
  • Significant autonomy and the opportunity to make a direct technical impact.