Software Engineering LMTS - Release Engineering

Overview

Release Engineer overseeing the release lifecycle for B2B and OMS product lines at Salesforce, ensuring predictable, transparent, and collaborative software shipping.

What you'll do

• Own the end-to-end release calendar for B2B and OMS.
• Plan milestones, track progress, and facilitate production readiness meetings.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies and resolve scheduling conflicts with platform, QE, and product teams.
• Define release trains, hotfix paths, and branching/versioning strategies.
• Manage quality gates and procedures for hotfixes and emergency releases.
• Provide clear release status updates to leadership on milestones and deployment risks.
• Identify release-flow bottlenecks and streamline processes with engineering teams.

What you'll need

• 8+ years in release engineering, release management, or DevOps with technical leadership.
• Experience releasing on JVM ecosystem tools (Maven/Gradle/Bazel, Spring Boot, JAR/WAR publishing).
• Experience releasing on Node.js ecosystem tools (npm/pnpm/yarn, monorepos, package publishing).
• Experience with release automation and tooling (GitHub Actions/Jenkins/Buildkite, artifact registries, reproducible builds).
• Experience with Git internals (rebases, bisects, signed commits, hooks, monorepo workflows).
• Familiarity with CI/CD and development workflows (e.g., trunk-based development, semantic versioning).
• Familiarity with scripting (Bash, Python, or TypeScript) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi).