Release Manager

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🌐 Canada, United States – Remote

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $242.5k - $302.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Tailscale

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2020

☁️ SaaS

🔐 Security

📡 Telecommunications

💰 $100M Series B on 2022-05

SaaS • Security • Telecommunications

Tailscale is a company that provides a modern VPN solution founded on WireGuard technology, simplifying networking by creating secure, software-defined networks that connect users, services, and devices with ease. By eliminating the complexities of legacy VPNs, Tailscale offers secure remote access, site-to-site networking, and multi-cloud networking, all while ensuring user-friendly, quick deployment without complex configurations. Recognized for enabling zero-trust environments and seamless workflows, Tailscale supports robust security features such as automated user onboarding, encryption, and access control lists (ACLs). This tool is particularly popular for both enterprise and personal use, praised for its integration capabilities and ease of use, making secure networking accessible anywhere, regardless of infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Own how Tailscale ships its product internally and to customers • Build and run the release coordination process • Create operational practices coordinating product and engineering • Establish release cadence, define roles, build tooling, and agree on release norms • Design, implement, and continuously improve release management, including readiness criteria, rollout coordination, and go/no-go decisions • Build and maintain tooling, templates, runbooks, and documentation for repeatable, low-friction releases • Partner with engineering leads and product managers to surface risks and drive resolution • Define and track operational metrics such as release frequency and change failure rate • Facilitate cross-team planning rituals to keep engineering and product coordinated and releases on schedule • Identify and drive systemic operational improvements using data and judgment • Later expand processes into other product and engineering collaboration areas, such as operational metrics

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in engineering operations, release management, or a closely related role at a software company • Direct experience building or significantly improving release management processes • Technical fluency in build systems, deployment pipelines, branching strategies, and production operations • Strong judgment about useful processes versus unnecessary overhead, with focus on trust and adoption • Comfort with ambiguity and ability to build structure from scratch • Experience with both client and server software release processes (nice to have) • Experience at a developer tools, infrastructure, or security-focused SaaS company (nice to have) • Familiarity with DORA metrics (nice to have) • Experience with feature flag systems, progressive rollouts, or canary deployments (nice to have) • Experience scaling operational practices during rapid team or product growth (nice to have) • Hands-on experience with Tailscale at work or home (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity incentive plan • Comprehensive group benefits with no waiting period, including health, vision, and dental coverage for employees and families • Fully remote work environment and flexible work arrangements • Virtual and in-person social events • Corporate co-working program • Employer-funded retirement contributions matching employee contributions dollar-for-dollar, up to 0.75% of eligible compensation annually • Annual company retreat and team off-sites • $1500 USD annually for professional development • Mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities • Flexible paid time off • Company-owned laptop (Mac or PC) • Monthly home internet reimbursement • $500 USD workstation customization allowance • Paid parental leave top-ups: 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents

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