Mercury
Tech / AI / Software
SeniorEngineeringManager-ReleaseEngineering
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“Senior Engineering Manager - Release Engineering at Mercury. Skills: CI/CD platform ownership, build infrastructure management, deployment tooling development, release engineering practices, team leadership, strategy and execution for release process improvement. Lead and grow a team of four engineers focused on CI/CD infrastructure, build systems, deployment automation, and developer tooling. Create a culture of operational excellence”
What You'll Achieve.
measurable improvements to pipeline reliability, build times, and deployment confidence; ensuring it is fast, reliable, observable, and secure; release infrastructure should be a force multiplier for product engineers, not a bureaucratic hurdle; developed deep context on Mercury's release infrastructure; built trust with your team; identified the highest-leverage opportunities to improve pipeline performance and developer experience; shipped meaningful improvements to build reliability, deployment speed, or observability; your team has a clear roadmap for the next year; made Mercury's release process a model for how fintech companies can move fast without breaking things
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years of software engineering experience, 4+ years managing engineering teams in high-growth or high-availability environments, Deep hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI) and the infrastructure that supports them, background in build systems (Bazel, Buck2), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar), A track record of meaningfully improving release velocity and reliability, Experience operating in regulated or security-sensitive environments, ideally fintech, payments, or banking, Excellent cross-functional communication skills, A pragmatic philosophy, The ability to attract, develop, and retain exceptional talent
Nice to Have
Kubernetes a plus
What You'll Do.
Lead and grow a team of four engineers focused on CI/CD infrastructure
deployment automation
and developer tooling
Create a culture of operational excellence
Own Mercury's release pipeline end-to-end
Drive the strategy and execution for improving build performance
and developer velocity
Establish and evangelize release engineering best practices
Balance long-term platform investments with day-to-day reliability needs
Build and maintain tooling that enforces compliance checkpoints and audit trails
and retain top-tier engineers
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with the Backend Developer Experience team to deliver the full software delivery lifecycle; Partner closely with Platform, Security, and Product Engineering teams; translate between engineering depth and business impact; partner effectively with Security, Compliance, and Product leaders
Communication Scope
Excellent cross-functional communication skills; translate between engineering depth and business impact
Process & Methodology
Drive the strategy and execution for improving build performance, test reliability, deployment safety (canaries, feature flags, rollbacks), and developer velocity, Balance long-term platform investments with the day-to-day reliability needs
Full Job Description
Every line of code that ships at Mercury passes through a gauntlet of builds, tests, and gates before it reaches our customers. On the surface, that process should feel seamless — frictionless for engineers, undetectable to users, and impossibly reliable. Behind that invisibility is Release Engineering. Mercury moves fast. We ship frequently, our monorepo grows daily, and the pressure to do it right never lets up. Release Engineering is the team that makes this possible: owning the CI/CD platform, build infrastructure, deployment tooling, and the practices that let 400+ engineers deliver with confidence. We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead this team. You'll partner with the Backend Developer Experience team to deliver the full software delivery lifecycle from code commit to production, and build the engineering culture that keeps our release process a competitive advantage rather than a bottleneck. In this role you will: Lead and grow a team of four engineers focused on CI/CD infrastructure, build systems, deployment automation, and developer tooling. Create a strong culture of operational excellence, with measurable improvements to pipeline reliability, build times, and deployment confidence. Own Mercury's release pipeline end-to-end — from pull request merge to production — ensuring it is fast, reliable, observable, and secure. Drive the strategy and execution for improving build performance, test reliability, deployment safety (canaries, feature flags, rollbacks), and developer velocity. Partner closely with Platform, Security, and Product Engineering teams to design and deliver systems that meet the demands of a rapidly scaling fintech. Establish and evangelize release engineering best practices across Mercury's engineering org — defining standards for deployment frequency, change failure rate, and MTTR. Balance long-term platform investments with the day-to-day reliability needs of 400+ engineers shipping code every day. Build and maintain tooling
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