Principal Software Engineer

Job Summary

As a Principal Software Release Engineer, you will define, own, and continuously improve the end-to-end release lifecycle for software delivered across cloud-service and storage-platform environments. You will coordinate release planning, build generation, readiness validation, change approvals, deployment execution, status reporting, and post-release follow-through while progressively replacing manual handoffs with reliable automation and clear engineering controls.

Job Requirements

Own the end-to-end software release lifecycle, from release intake and planning through build, validation, approval, deployment, verification, and closure. Plan and coordinate concurrent releases across development, test, staging, and production environments, maintaining clear schedules, dependencies, milestones, owners, and decision points. Design, maintain, and improve CI/CD and release automation that reduces manual steps, accelerates delivery, and provides repeatable, auditable outcomes. Partner with development and quality teams to confirm required test coverage, regression results, performance validation, and environment readiness; escalate gaps that could compromise release quality. Lead response to build or deployment failures by rapidly coordinating triage, clarifying ownership, documenting the failure path, and ensuring the correct new release, hotfix, retry, rollback, or recovery workflow is initiated. Conduct post-release reviews and convert lessons learned into improved tooling, templates, quality gates, automation, and release policy. Mentor engineers and release participants on release processes, tools, quality expectations, change controls, and failure-recovery practices.