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Senior Engineering Manager (Release Engineering)

PagerDuty

Skills

Required

  • GitOps / deployment platform migration
  • AI coding agents
  • CI/CD platform
  • platform engineering / SRE / DevOps

Preferred

  • progressive delivery
  • canary releases / feature-flag rollouts
  • platform
  • Change Failure Rate
  • Kubernetes

Join PagerDuty as a Senior Engineering Manager in Release Engineering. You will lead a team of experienced platform engineers and set the delivery direction for all of PagerDuty Engineering. Your responsibilities will include setting the multi-year roadmap for software development, leading the GitOps transformation, and owning delivery metrics. You will also have the opportunity to hire, coach, and grow senior engineers.

Set the multi-year roadmap for how PagerDuty builds, tests and deploys software, and lead the GitOps transformation.

About PagerDuty

Experience running Argo CD, Buildkite or CircleCI at scale

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of experienced platform engineers and set the delivery direction for all of PagerDuty Engineering, partnering closely with the AI-native development program.
  • Own our delivery metrics, including Change Failure Rate, and report them to engineering leadership monthly, pairing every speed metric with a quality measure.
  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, CI/CD systems and infrastructure as code
  • The ability to explain technical tradeoffs to executives in plain language

Requirements

  • Proven experience leading a GitOps or deployment platform migration across many teams and clusters
  • Hands-on use of AI coding agents, with experience changing a pipeline or process because of their impact on delivery speed and stability
  • A track record of taking a CI/CD platform from selection to full adoption across an engineering organization
  • 10+ years in platform engineering, SRE or DevOps, including at least 5 years managing engineers
  • We encourage you to submit your resume even if you don't meet every requirement. We value potential and consider each candidate's full professional story. Whether you're exploring a career change or taking your next step, we look forward to reviewing your application

Preferred

  • Experience with vendor and budget management
  • Experience with progressive delivery, such as canary releases or feature-flag rollouts