Release Engineering Manager, ClickUp

• 7+ years experience in release engineering and management
• Strong understanding of the SDLC, including CD and release readiness
• Expertise with CD pipelines based on Github Actions, Harness, Jenkins or similar
• Hands-on experience with issue and project tracking techniques
• Ability to coordinate cross-functionally across engineering teams and multiple time zones
• Familiarity with agile methodologies, cloud-native micro-services, and DevOps best practices
• Scripting experience in Python, Bash, or similar, for automation or release tooling experience with observability and dashboard tools like Grafana, Kibana, DataDog, or Tableau
• Unsure if you meet all the qualifications of this job description but are deeply excited about the role? We hire based on ambition, grit, and a passion for improving the way people work. If you think ClickUp is the company for you, we encourage you to apply!
• At ClickUp, we assess every candidate based on the potential impact they can have. We hire the best people for the job and support each person’s journey to build their boldest career

Desirable

• ClickUp is on a mission to make the world more productive - and that starts with frequent releases of our platform that over 20 million people depend on daily
• We’re looking for an experienced Release Engineering Manager to help us ship faster and with increased confidence in quality across our AI-powered web, mobile, and desktop platforms
• In this role, you'll be responsible for the continuous delivery of high-quality releases from early stage test environments through staging and into production
• At ClickUp, Release Engineering isn’t an afterthought, it’s embedded in the heart of how we ship high-performing software
• We’re hiring a Release Engineering Manager to join the Quality team and own the orchestration of high-quality deployments that millions of users depend on
• This role ensures our release process is proactive, reliable, and scalable, and it directly impacts customer satisfaction, product velocity, and platform reliability
• Own and evolve the release process for key components of our platform, ensuring safe, high-quality, and on-time deployments to production
• Automate release workflows wherever possible including validation, approvals, and rollouts to reduce manual effort and increase reliability
• Implement observability and metrics in partnership with Infra and SRE, using tools like Datadog to monitor release health, stability, and deployment success
• Develop and maintain playbooks, release calendars, and technical implementation plans, covering both application and infrastructure components
• Plan and manage all release activities in coordination with Engineering, QA/QE, and Productivity teams across web, mobile, and desktop
• Lead daily release reviews and Go/No-Go execution, including deployment plans, validation checklists, and readiness gates
• Collaborate with engineering teams to assess deployment impact, automate dependency checks, and enforce best practices in CI/CD pipelines
• Maintain release repositories and process automation, including feature flag governance, version tagging, and dependency tracking
• Track and improve release metrics such as velocity, stability, and defect rates; build dashboards and alerting for continuous visibility and accountability
• Drive production incident triage and post-mortem analysis, identifying opportunities for automation and process hardening to improve release reliability