Senior Engineering Manager, Release Engineering

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Set a multi-year roadmap for building, testing, and deploying software.
• Lead GitOps transformation and ensure environments and change promotion or rollback processes are defined in Git.
• Bring CI-quality checks into developer and AI-agent workflows for rapid feedback.
• Provide isolated, short-lived test environments for engineers and AI agents.
• Refocus code review on risky changes and automate checks, including verification of AI-written tests.
• Select and drive adoption of a CI/CD platform across Engineering.
• Own delivery metrics, report them monthly, and pair speed measures with quality measures.
• Manage CI and AI-tooling costs; hire, coach, and grow senior engineers.
• Share learnings through talks, blog posts, and the engineering community.

Basic qualifications

• At least 10 years in platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps, including at least 5 years managing engineers.
• Experience leading a GitOps or deployment-platform migration across many teams and clusters.
• Experience taking a CI/CD platform from selection to organization-wide adoption.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, CI/CD systems, and infrastructure as code.
• Hands-on use of AI coding agents and experience adapting delivery processes to their impact.
• Ability to explain technical tradeoffs to executives in plain language.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience running Argo CD, Buildkite, or CircleCI at scale.
• Experience with progressive delivery, including canary releases or feature-flag rollouts.
• Experience with vendor and budget management.

Workplace

• The role requires working in the office two days per week.
• PagerDuty describes its work model as hybrid.

Compensation

• Base salary range is CAD 180,000 to CAD 272,800; the posting does not specify a pay cadence.
• The role may also be eligible for bonus, commission, equity, and benefits.

Potential benefits

• Potential offerings include health benefits, equity, an employee stock purchase program, retirement or pension plan, paid leave, wellness programs, and volunteer time off; eligibility varies.