Senior Release Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p>GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.</p> <p>The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values&nbsp;and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuZIb5zszQI">Co-create the future with us</a> as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.</p> <p>*<em>Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.</em></p></div><h2><strong>An Overview of this role</strong></h2> <p>We are looking for a Senior Release Engineer to help design, standardize, and operate reliable enterprise application delivery across the Enterprise Technology &amp; AI team. This role will establish scalable CI/CD practices for business-critical platforms such as Salesforce, Zuora and other Business Systems while enabling engineering teams to ship changes safely, quickly, and with clear operational controls.</p> <p>The ideal candidate combines strong release engineering and automation skills with practical experience supporting enterprise SaaS applications. You will build and maintain GitLab CI/CD or comparable CI/CD pipelines, develop reusable scripts and deployment tooling, improve release governance, and partner with application, security, compliance, and business teams across the release lifecycle. Daily use of approved AI-assisted engineering tools, including Claude, Duo Agent Platform or comparable enterprise-approved tools, is a mandatory expectation for DevOps, troubleshooting, documentation, testing, and automation activities.</p> <h2><strong>What you'll do</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Design, build, and maintain GitLab CI/CD or comparable CI/CD pipelines for enterprise applications, including validation, testing, packaging, deployment, promotion, roll