Technical Release Specialist
US$106,000 – US$133,000 / yr base salary
Posted 6 Oct 2026
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- Expected experience
- 4–6 yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Remote
| Base salary | US$106,000 – US$133,000 / yr |
|---|
Field of studyComputer Science, Software Engineering (or related)
Study levelBachelor's
Field of studyBusiness Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering
Study levelMaster's
**THE POSITION
**Our roster has an opening with your name on it
The Technical Release Specialist oversees the end-to-end release lifecycle, ensuring that software deployments are delivered reliably, efficiently, and with minimal risk. This role acts as the central coordinator across engineering, QA, product, and operations, driving standardized processes that improve release quality and accelerate time to market.
In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above, employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.
THE GAME PLAN
Everyone on our team has a part to play
- Establish and maintain consistent, repeatable deployment practices to reduce risk and improve quality.
- Implement structured release workflows that reduce production outages and business disruption.
- Serve as the central point of communication, aligning engineering, QA, product, and operations to prevent bottlenecks and duplicate work.
- Streamline approvals and release workflows to improve time to market new features and updates.
- Oversee comprehensive testing, validation, and risk assessments to prevent errors and protect customer experience.
- Provide day-to-day support for release management inquiries and requests.
- Coordinate scope of change, release details, and documentation generation
- Maintain clear rollback plans to enable rapid recovery from deployment issues.
- Balance competing needs, resources, and timelines to keep releases on track.
- Allow engineering teams to focus on development by managing the coordination and orchestration of release activities.
- Plan and schedule environment refreshes to ensure data accuracy and alignment across development, testing, and production systems.
- Manage sandbox creation, updates, and general upkeep to support development and QA activities.
- Salesforce Expertise: Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Einstein Chatbot, Communities, Analytics Studio, Data Cloud, Agentforce
- Define and communicate production deployment windows to minimize business impact and ensure smooth release execution.
- Work with stakeholders across the Technology and Product Engineering org
- Strong presentation and documentation skills
- Train and educate engineers and stakeholders on release management
- Deliver accurate and timely insight reporting in-line with key release related metrics to stakeholders.
What we're looking for in our next teammate