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Engineering Manager, Release Engineering
Engineering managerHybrid — Berlin, Germany
Published on 2026-11-05
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About this role
Lead the Developer Experience/Release Engineering team responsible for CI/CD and release systems across Superhuman’s products. Set technical direction and stay hands-on while helping teams ship faster and more safely across web, desktop, mobile, browser extensions, and APIs.
About the company
Superhuman is an email productivity tool designed to enhance users' efficiency and workflow. The company serves professionals looking to optimize their email management through innovative features and streamlined processes.
The team
Developer Experience/Release Engineering team in Berlin.
Stack
GitHub ActionsJenkinsBuildkiteBazelAWSGCPAzureKubernetes
What you'll do
- Lead, mentor, hire, and develop engineers.
- Own the CI/CD, build, and release systems strategy and roadmap.
- Improve delivery speed and safety using DORA metrics.
- Build and operate progressive rollouts, canaries, feature flags, automated rollbacks, and release monitoring.
- Coordinate release trains and launches across products and partner teams.
- Improve build and test times, reduce flaky pipelines, and create self-service delivery tools.
- Act as Incident Commander for release incidents and lead blameless postmortems.
- Review designs, debug complex pipeline issues, and guide technical direction.
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of software, DevOps, or release/build engineering experience and 2+ years managing engineers.
- Hands-on expertise in CI/CD systems and build tooling.
- Experience with cloud platforms and Kubernetes or another container orchestration system.
- Experience operating release systems at scale with progressive delivery and safe rollback.
- Knowledge of infrastructure as code, observability, and DORA metrics.
- Incident Commander experience and practice running blameless postmortems.
- Understanding of software supply chain security, including dependency management, artifact signing, and secrets handling.
- Experience leading distributed teams and collaborating cross-functionally.
Benefits
- Professional development, training, coaching, and regular feedback.
- Defined time off and mental health and risk benefits.
- Home-office setup support, wellness and pet-care stipends.
- Relocation support including visa assistance, destination services, and a relocation bonus.