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title: 'Release Engineer at EngFlow'
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# Release Engineer at EngFlow 

- **Company:** EngFlow 
- **Location:** Germany
- **Compensation:** $60k–$120k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/engflow/24bf13e4-3ffb-4015-bd02-7f2d2b0e1351

## Job description

Remote - EMEA. EngFlow does more than make builds faster. It improves the operating performance of the whole engineering organization. The best teams can assemble powerful build and test infrastructure; the hard part is operating it reliably, with visibility and cost control, as demand grows. That is Build Management at AI Scale: operating build and test as production infrastructure, including execution, observability, reliability, and cost control, so teams can build, test, diagnose, and release even as they write code at AI speed. Engineering organizations, including BMW, Databricks, Snap, Canva, Lyft, and Asana, run on EngFlow. The result is high performance at scale. EngFlow was founded by the engineers who created and maintain Bazel, and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global. Learn more about our mission, culture, and team: [EngFlow](https://www.engflow.com/) | [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8UMhFS8esc)

Companies like Canva, Databricks, and MongoDB rely on EngFlow to keep their builds fast and their engineers unblocked. As a Release Engineer, you're the person who makes sure our platform gets to them — reliably, on cadence, every week. You'll own the full release lifecycle for EngFlow's remote execution platform: from cutting the release and managing phased rollouts across dozens of production clusters worldwide, to triaging regressions, keeping CI green, and driving the operational discipline that lets the rest of the engineering team move fast. You'll work directly with a wide range of engineers, including EngFlow product engineers and Bazel contributors.. If you're interested in high-ownership work, care deeply about reliability, and want to understand a complex distributed system end-to-end, this is a role where you'll matter from day one.

Key Responsibilities:

- Own the release cycle: Drive the weekly releases from branch cut to full production rollout. Manage phased deployment across rc, preview, general, and cautious tracks using Terraform and internal tooling — balancing speed with the stability our customers depend on.
- Keep production healthy: Deploy configuration changes to a global fleet of clusters, resolve Terraform drift, and ensure every cluster stays within its maintenance and certificate windows.
- Run the rotation: Each week one engineer shields the team from operational noise — that's you, on rotation. Triage the Linear queue daily, route issues to the right team, investigate customer-reported cluster problems, and facilitate the weekly Production Ops meeting.
- Own CI health: Keep the master branch green across all EngFlow-managed repositories. Hunt down flaky tests, fix what you can, and leave good context for what you can't.
- Be the connective tissue during incidents: Coordinate between engineers when production issues escalate. Deploy hotfixes and configuration changes within agreed maintenance windows, without dropping the ball on the rest of the week.
- Make the next release easier than the last: Improve runbooks, sharpen the handover process, and reduce toil — not just for yourself, but for every engineer who comes after you on rotation.

## Requirements

- Release & deployment experience: You've owned production deployments for a distributed or cloud-hosted service — you know what a bad rollout looks like and how to catch it early.
- Infrastructure as code: Hands-on Terraform experience in AWS, GCP, and other cloud providers. You're comfortable reading a plan, spotting drift, and making a call on whether to apply or revert.
- Build system familiarity: You can read a Bazel, Gradle, Maven, or CMake build and understand what's happening. You don't need to be a compiler engineer, but build failures shouldn't be a black box.
- CI/CD operations: Experience keeping a CI system healthy — investigating failures, managing flaky tests, and understanding the difference between a systemic problem and a one-off.
- Linux & shell: The shell is your natural habitat for log analysis, scripting, and debugging production issues.
- Async communication: Strong written English — you write clear updates, handover summaries, and runbooks that people actually read.
- Ownership of outcomes: Comfortable being the person the team leans on for a week at a time, and escalating when you need help.

## Nice to have

- Direct experience with Bazel or the Remote Execution API (REAPI)
- Programming proficiency in Java, Go, Python, or TypeScript for automation and internal tooling
- Experience with PagerDuty and Linear (or equivalent incident and issue-tracking workflows)
- Background in platform or DevOps engineering at a product-led company
- Familiarity with Kubernetes or container orchestration in production

## Benefits

We offer comprehensive medical, dental, vision benefits, 401k bonus, parental leave and generous vacation. The team is fully remote but we enjoy meeting together several times a year at exciting destinations throughout the world. We value getting the work done and having fun while doing it, and have done numerous fun team events such as chocolate, whisky and tea tastings, monthly team games, escape the room among other fun events.

## About EngFlow 

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: EngFlow provides a build and test acceleration platform that distributes and caches software builds to make them faster, created by core Bazel engineers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) – total funding $21.9M as of November 2022 [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/engflow).
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/engflow).
- **Founded**: 2020 [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/engflow).
- **Founders**: Ulf Adams (CTO) and Helen Altshuler (CEO) [engflow.com](https://www.engflow.com/company/team).

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Developer infrastructure / build systems.
- **Target customers**: B2B – startups to Fortune 500 companies; engineering teams of all sizes.
- **Mission/purpose**: Keep developers in flow by eliminating slow builds and tests, increasing engineering productivity.

## Products & Services
- **Remote Execution**: Distributes builds and tests across a cluster of machines to cut build time by 5–10x [engflow.com](https://www.engflow.com/).
- **Remote Caching**: Caches build outputs to avoid redundant work, reducing cloud costs by 20–50% [engflow.com](https://www.engflow.com/).
- **Build and Test UI**: View build/test results in a browser and share them with the team [engflow.com](https://www.engflow.com/).
- **Bazel Invocation Analyzer** (free tool): Analyzes Bazel profiles and gives personalized performance improvement suggestions [engflow.com](https://www.engflow.com/).
- **Migration & Custom Rules**: Professional services to migrate to Bazel, create custom build rules, and optimize existing build systems [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/engflow).
- **Platform compatibility**: Supports Bazel, Buck v2, CMake, AOSP, Chromium, and works with major CI systems [engflow.com](https://www.engflow.com/).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: $21.9M total funding (Seed $3.7M, Series A $18M, plus $200K corporate round) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/engflow); estimated annual revenue of $1M [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/engflow).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lead investor in Series A: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/engflow). Additional investors undisclosed.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount of 56 (October 2025 data), +31.9% YoY [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/engflow).
  - Acquired tipi.build in March 2025 [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/engflow).
  - Used by Fortune 500 companies [apply.workable.com](https://apply.workable.com/engflow/?lng=en).
  - SOC 2 Type 2 audited security [engflow.com](https://www.engflow.com/).
  - Operates in 13 countries including Germany, Colombia, Spain, UK, Netherlands [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/engflow).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Team expertise**: Built by the lead developer of Bazel and core Blaze/Bazel engineers from Google [engflow.com](https://www.engflow.com/company/team).
- **Performance**: Proven 5–10x speed improvement and 20–50% cloud cost reduction [engflow.com](https://www.engflow.com/).
- **Flexibility**: Supports multiple build systems (Bazel, Buck, CMake, AOSP, Chromium) and can be deployed on customer’s cloud or EngFlow’s infrastructure [engflow.com](https://www.engflow.com/).
- **Compliance & security**: SOC 2 Type 2 certified, SSO included, no hidden costs [engflow.com](https://www.engflow.com/).
- **Open-source contributions**: Maintains the free Bazel Invocation Analyzer tool [engflow.com](https://www.engflow.com/).

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling remote execution and caching to support 100,000+ core clusters [engflow.com](https://www.engflow.com/).
- Expanding platform integration (e.g., tipi.build acquisition) to serve more developer workflows [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/engflow).
- Deepening enterprise adoption with 24/7 support and dedicated Bazel experts [engflow.com](https://www.engflow.com/).
- Growing the engineering team to accelerate product development (22 active job postings as of late 2025) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/engflow).

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: Fully remote company hiring globally across 13+ countries [engflow.com](https://www.engflow.com/company/careers).
- **People-focused**: Roles are created around individual skills and interests, matched with company needs; core values LEAP: Loyalty, Excellence, Adventure, Perseverance [engflow.com](https://www.engflow.com/company/careers).
- **Benefits**: Generous vacation, healthcare, parental leave [engflow.com](https://www.engflow.com/company/careers).
- **Engineering excellence**: Work alongside top Bazel experts and former Google engineers; tech stack includes Java, C++, Python, JavaScript [engflow.com](https://www.engflow.com/company/careers).
- **Growth**: Fast-growing company (+31.9% headcount YoY) with opportunities to shape product and culture [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/engflow).
- **Autonomy**: Flexible, async culture that values experimentation and learning from mistakes [engflow.com](https://www.engflow.com/company/careers).

## Sources
1. [engflow.com]((https://www.engflow.com/)
2. [engflow.com/company/careers]((https://www.engflow.com/company/careers)
3. [engflow.com/company/team]((https://www.engflow.com/company/team)
4. [linkedin.com/company/engflow]((https://www.linkedin.com/company/engflow)
5. [apply.workable.com/engflow]((https://apply.workable.com/engflow/?lng=en)

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