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ABOUT ELEMYNT
Elemynt builds secure AI infrastructure for scientific and engineering R&D teams. Our platform helps organizations connect data, models, compute, and expert workflows in environments where reliability, traceability, and data control matter.
We are building a small, ambitious engineering team across Singapore and the United States to turn advanced scientific computing into production software that real technical teams can use.
ABOUT THE ROLE
This role owns the release and deployment path for Elemynt’s platform across secure enterprise and scientific computing environments.
You will build the systems that make every release versioned, reproducible, observable, and safe to operate. The work sits at the intersection of software engineering, infrastructure, site reliability, and customer delivery.
This is a deeply hands on senior role. You will take deployments from proof of concept through production, improve the playbook after each engagement, and help turn complex installations into repeatable engineering systems.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Own release engineering for the platform, including build promotion, quality gates, artifact management, and reproducible delivery practices.
- Build deployment tooling and automation that makes installs and upgrades reliable across varied enterprise environments.
- Design safe rollout, validation, health check, and recovery mechanisms for production deployments.
- Create operational visibility through logs, metrics, alerts, and support workflows appropriate for secure customer environments.
- Build controls for customer managed installations, including configuration validation, credential handling, certificate workflows, and documented recovery paths.
- Improve deployment reliability by debugging incidents, identifying root causes, and turning fixes into reusable automation.
- Partner with product, engineering, and customer facing teams to make deployment readiness part of how the platform is built.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field, with 6 plus years building and shipping production software.
- Strong ownership of release processes, including CI and CD systems, automated tests, versioned artifacts, and production readiness gates.
- Deep hands on experience with container based deployments, infrastructure automation, and operating multi component systems.
- Experience deploying and supporting software in customer managed or restricted enterprise environments.
- Comfort working across more than one runtime environment, including cloud infrastructure, technical compute environments, and bare metal or cluster based systems.
- Strong operational debugging skills using logs, metrics, traces, and incident workflows.
- Experience with secrets, certificates, identity, permissions, and security controls for deployed software.
- Ability to own ambiguous, high stakes deployment work with limited scaffolding and strong execution discipline.
NICE TO HAVE
- Exposure to scientific computing, simulation, engineering software, or other large scale technical workloads.
- Experience with GPU workloads or multi tenant compute environments.
- Experience with progressive delivery, Git based operations, or production rollout patterns.
- Familiarity with commercial scientific software deployment models and license management concepts.
- Experience packaging, versioning, monitoring, or operating machine learning models in production.
- Experience building the first version of an engineering function in an early stage company.
LOCATION
Singapore or United States. Work model is on site or hybrid, depending on location. Some customer facing travel may be required.
CLOSING NOTE
You do not need to tick every box. If this is clearly your kind of work, we would like to hear from you.
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Who's Hiring
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in release engineer jobs.
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or CircleCI
- Proficiency with containerization and orchestration platforms including Docker and Kubernetes
- Scripting ability in at least one language such as Python, Bash, or Groovy for build and release automation
- Familiarity with version control workflows, branching strategies, and merge pipeline governance in Git
- Experience with artifact management tools such as Nexus or Artifactory and release versioning standards
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
Tips for Your Release Engineer Job Search
Quantify pipeline impact on your resume
Release engineer resumes that land interviews show measurable outcomes: deployment frequency improvements, mean time to recovery reductions, or rollback success rates. Replace vague descriptions of tools you used with the business result those tools produced.
Match your stack to the job posting
Release engineer roles vary sharply by toolchain. A listing that emphasizes Jenkins and Ansible is a different team culture from one built on GitHub Actions and ArgoCD. Tailor your resume's tools section to mirror the exact stack in each posting before applying.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists release engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target companies mid-deployment-maturity
Companies scaling from manual deploys to full automation hire release engineers most aggressively. Look for job descriptions that mention 'maturing our CI/CD practice' or 'standardizing release processes' as signals the role has real scope and budget.
Prepare a live pipeline walkthrough for interviews
Many release engineer interviews include a technical screen where you narrate a pipeline you built from trigger to production artifact. Have a real example ready that covers branching strategy, testing gates, and deployment approvals so you can discuss tradeoffs confidently.
Negotiate scope before negotiating title
Release engineer offers at the same salary level can differ dramatically in on-call burden, deployment authority, and access to production. Before accepting, ask how many deployments happen per week and who holds incident responsibility to understand the real scope of the role.
Release Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most release engineers?
The companies hiring the most release engineers right now include General Motors (GM), Stellantis, and Pentangle Tech Services | P5, with the largest share of openings in Michigan, California, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Demand is concentrated in software product companies and regulated industries where controlled deployment practices are required.
How many release engineer jobs are remote?
About 31% of release engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting how much of the work happens through cloud-based tooling and shared dashboards rather than on-site infrastructure. Roles focused on pipeline development and build automation are the most likely to be listed as remote, while positions with hands-on data center or hardware deployment responsibilities tend to require more in-office time.
How do you become a release engineer?
Most release engineers start in a software development, QA, or systems administration role and move into release work by owning deployment processes on their team. Building fluency in CI/CD tools, scripting, and version control workflows is the practical foundation. From there, taking on incident response, on-call rotations, and cross-team release coordination builds the judgment and systems thinking the role requires at senior levels.
Can you get hired as a release engineer with little experience?
Entry-level release engineer roles exist, and they typically look for candidates who have automated a build or deployment process in a personal project, internship, or previous job, even if the scope was small. Contributing to open-source CI/CD tooling, completing a cloud platform certification, and being able to walk through a pipeline you built end-to-end are more persuasive than years of experience alone at the junior level.
What does the release engineer interview process look like?
Release engineer interviews typically include an initial recruiter screen, a technical phone interview covering CI/CD concepts and tool experience, and a live or take-home exercise where you design or debug a pipeline. Later rounds often include a system design discussion focused on deployment strategies, rollback procedures, and environment promotion. Behavioral questions usually center on incident response, cross-team coordination, and how you have reduced deployment risk.
Where can I find and apply to release engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to release engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience level, preferred stack, and location, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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