Staff Release Engineer, Kaluza
£93.6-117k
+ Discretionary Bonus Scheme
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Intelligent software platform powering the future of energy
Be an early applicant
Intelligent software platform powering the future of energy
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
£93.6-117k
+ Discretionary Bonus Scheme
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help decarbonise the world.
Role
Who you are
- Strategic CI/CD & Release Architect: Deep experience architecting, scaling, and maintaining enterprise-grade CI/CD frameworks, release pipelines, and internal developer platforms in cloud-native environments
- DevOps & DORA Expert: Comprehensive mastery of DevOps practices, software development lifecycle (SDLC) automation, and practical application of DORA metrics to drive measurable engineering productivity
- Technical Mentor & Leader: A proven track record of upskilling senior engineering talent, driving technical strategy, and establishing consensus across multi-disciplinary engineering domains
- Infrastructure & Automation Mastery: Extensive hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), container orchestration (Kubernetes, ArgoCD), and workflow automation (GitHub Actions). Experience of GitHub Enterprise administration and GitHubAsCode experience would be a bonus
- Developer-Centric & Data-Driven: Strong customer obsession—viewing developers as your primary customers—paired with data-driven decision-making to optimize developer experience and eliminate toil
- We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. But if you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you
Desirable
- LLM Integration Experience: Hands-on experience integrating large language models into production applications or developer workflows, whether via APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock) or open-source models, with a solid understanding of prompt engineering, context management, and evaluation
- AI Tooling Advocacy: A track record of introducing AI-assisted developer tooling and workflows (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, Claude, or similar) into a team and upskilling colleagues, not just using it personally
- Enterprise Release Strategy & Domain Exposure: Experience designing, building, and governance-proofing release architectures specifically for enterprise clients or highly regulated global platforms, ideally with direct domain exposure to energy technology, smart device orchestration, billing SaaS platforms, or high-throughput IoT platforms
What the job involves
- Reporting To: Software Engineering manager
- As a Staff Release Engineer, you will set the technical strategy and global architecture for Kaluza’s continuous integration, delivery, and automated release ecosystems. You will empower our entire engineering organization to deploy high-quality software safely, frequently, and with minimal friction
- Architect Release Ecosystems: Lead the high-level design and long-term roadmap definition for building, scaling, and governing the systems and practices that reliably move software from source to production through centralized developer tooling across all Kaluza engineering domains
- Drive Engineering Productivity & SRE Practices: Strategize and embed automated deployment & release mechanisms, testing frameworks, Site Reliability Engineering principles and AI tooling to drastically reduce toil and accelerate software delivery speed and safety across the organization
- Establish Global Standards & Metrics: Lead the definition, continuous improvement and enforcement of company-wide DevOps practices, standards, and frameworks such as DORA for compliance and auditability but also to measure and target improvements that elevate engineering productivity
- Orchestrate Complex Infrastructure Tooling: Own the strategy for deployment platforms and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, ArgoCD), ensuring multi-tenant SaaS environments are secure, scalable, and efficient
- Mentor & Upskill: Provide technical ownership, guidance, and mentorship to engineers across Kaluza, fostering deep expertise in automated delivery, developer experience, and modern release engineering practices including AI enablement
- Hands-off & Hands-on Technical Leadership: Drive platform-wide release architecture through audits and strategic design, while retaining the capability to build high-impact proofs-of-concept for mission-critical release infrastructure
Our take
The energy landscape is one of the most dynamic and fast-evolving sectors in the world. More and more energy retailers are looking to move further toward digitisation and reap the benefits of modern technology in an increasingly connected world. But many are struggling with the transition, held back by legacy operating systems which slow them down, drain resources, and hamper innovation.
This is where Kaluza comes in. An ecosystem of platforms whose services range from energy billing to smart electric vehicle charging, Its real-time cloud platforms transform supplier operations, reducing the cost to serve and boosting customer engagement. Essentially, its platform is aimed at helping businesses streamline their operations, saving them time, effort, and money which can be better invested elsewhere.
Kaluza is riding the momentum of a growing desire for sustainable business and services. Its program relating to electric car charging, for example, will be able to capitalise on huge new demand in that sector - over 100,000 electric cars are already on the roads in the UK, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance has predicted that electric cars will account for over 50% of new global car sales by 2040. As the globe moves further towards sustainable use of energy in the coming years, Kaluza could be very well positioned to capitalise.
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Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2024
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Progressive leave policies - including leave dedicated to the moments that matter to you the most
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Dedicated personal learning and home office budgets
- Flexible working — we trust you to work in a way that suits your lifestyle
- 26 days holiday
- Kaluza Share Scheme
Company HQ
Kensington, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Melissa Gander
(CEO)Initially joined Kaluza as COO before becoming CEO in 2024. Previously worked at OVO Energy in a number of roles, including Managing Director of Smart Metering and Group COO. Prior to that, they worked at INEXUS as a Process and Performance Analyst and a Customer Manager.
People progressing
Joined as Senior Technical Product Manager in 2017, promoted after 2 years to Head of Product, promoted again in 2024 to their current position as Director of Product.
Joined Kaluza in 2020 as a Software Engineer, and in less than 2 years was promoted to Software Engineering Manager and again promoted in 2023 to Senior Software Engineer.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Kaluza
- We are developing an dedicated Early Talent programme with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business
- Our applicant tracking system, Greenhouse, also anonymously tracks the diversity of each candidate pipeline, so we can proactively take action when a pipeline needs to be more diverse
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused diversity job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity
- Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to 25% Women in Tech by 2025
- We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within Kaluza and the wider community
- Within Kaluza we have belonging communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- We run monthly Inclusive Hiring Skills & Bias training that are open to all Kaluza employees
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