Senior Release Engineer

GitLab is hiring a Senior Release Engineer in Bangalore.

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. 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, in

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain GitLab CI/CD or comparable CI/CD pipelines for enterprise applications, including validation, testing, packaging, deployment, promotion, rollback, and post-release verification.

• Develop reusable automation using scripting languages such as Python to reduce manual release activities and improve repeatability.

• Use approved AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude or similar tools every day to accelerate pipeline development, scripting, test creation, troubleshooting, documentation, release analysis, and operational automation.

• Define and implement CI/CD patterns for platforms such as Salesforce, Zuora, and other Business Systems.

• Establish environment and promotion strategies across development, test, staging, and production, including configuration management and deployment sequencing.

• Implement quality gates, automated checks, approvals, audit trails, and policy controls appropriate for enterprise application releases.

• Partner with application owners and development teams to define branching, versioning, release cadence, and rollback standards.

• Improve release observability through deployment dashboards, pipeline metrics, change records, notifications, and operational reporting.

• Investigate failed deployments and release issues, lead root-cause analysis, and implement durable corrective actions.

• Contribute to release calendars, change planning, blackout-period coordination, and risk-based release decision-making.

• Build documentation, runbooks, reusable templates, and enablement materials so teams can adopt consistent delivery practices.

• Coach engineers and application teams on GitLab CI/CD or comparable CI/CD tools, release automation, trunk/branching strategies, testing, and operational readiness.

• Collaborate with security, compliance, architecture, and enterprise application stakeholders to meet control requirements without creating unnecessary delivery friction.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science,Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.

• 7+ years of experience in release engineering, DevOps or a related discipline.

About GitLab

ETA teams adopt reusable GitLab CI/CD or comparable CI/CD patterns for Salesforce, Zuora, and other enterprise platforms.Release quality improves through automated validation, testing, policy checks, and post-deployment verification. Deployment, change, and compliance evidence is available through reliable pipeline records and operational reporting. Application teams can move faster while maintaining appropriate controls for business-critical systems. AI-assisted DevOps adoption measurably impro