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# Senior Technical Release Manager at Sureify

- **Company:** Sureify
- **Location:** Hyderabad, India
- **Posted:** 2026-09-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sureify/jobs/5376122008

## Job description

## About Sureify

Sureify is dedicated to modernizing the life insurance and annuity industry. We provide cutting-edge digital solutions that empower insurers to easily engage with, sell to, and service their customers. Our mission is to drive meaningful digital transformation by offering scalable technology that enhances customer engagement and streamlines carrier operations. Sureify's products deliver the advanced digital experiences that life insurance carriers, agents, employees, and consumers now expect in this rapidly evolving technological landscape. At Sureify, we cultivate a culture that prioritizes innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

## Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Technical Release Manager to join our Hyderabad office. This role will be responsible for managing all production releases across our enterprise platform and customer-specific solutions. Unlike traditional release roles, this position serves as a Technical Release Governor in a complex hybrid environment consisting of both multi-tenant products and multi-instance siloed environments.

As we scale our carrier customer base, we are looking to adopt best of the breed release practices. You will be the single point of accountability for replacing high-intensity manual interventions in releases with a systematic, technically rigorous process. You will ensure releases are delivered with quality, predictability, and efficiency while bridging the gap between engineering, QA, product, and client support teams.

## Key Responsibilities

Release Lifecycle Leadership: Own and manage the end-to-end release lifecycle for all production deployments, including core platform production updates and customer-specific customizations. Define, document, and enforce release management processes and standards. Create and maintain the release calendar, ensuring transparency and alignment across teams.

Technical Gatekeeping: Conduct deep-dive release readiness reviews. You will audit "Release Manifests" by validating steps such as SQL migrations or PDF template migrations, Temporal workflow versioning, Kafka schemas, and AWS resource configurations. A good overall understanding of deployment architecture in AWS is essential for this role.

Environment Governance: Manage "Instance Parity" across our AWS multi-instance architecture to prevent "Environmental Drift" and ensure customer-specific secrets and variables match our global standards.

Cross-Functional Orchestration: Facilitate formal "Go/No-Go" decisions by tracking a global checklist that includes technical and non-technical readiness.

Risk Mitigation: Identify, document, and mitigate technical sequencing risks (e.g., database locks or stateful workflow conflicts) associated with production releases.

Continuous Improvement: Monitor release performance, generate and provide metrics and reports and drive the transition from manual coordination to Automated Production Quality Gates within our release pipelines.

Required Qualifications & Experience

10+ years of overall technical experience, with a background in software engineering, SRE, or backend operations.

5+ years of direct release management experience in a complex, enterprise hybrid SaaS environment (Multi-tenant & Multi-instance).

Cloud-Native Expertise: Expert-level knowledge of AWS (EKS, RDS, Secrets Manager, IAM, S3, MSK) and the ability to audit infrastructure-level configurations.

Stack Fluency: Demonstrated familiarity with Typescript, PHP, Go-lang, and Node.js ecosystems. You must understand the deployment nuances of each.

Modern Orchestration: Hands-on experience or strong knowledge of Temporal (stateful workflows) and Kafka (event streaming). You understand the risks of deploying to "in-flight" asynchronous processes.

Database Proficiency: Strong proficiency in MySQL and Postgres, specifically in auditing complex migration scripts and data sequencing.

Containerization Mastery: Deep understanding of Kubernetes (K8s) manifest auditing and deployment patterns (Canary, Blue-Green, or Rolling Updates).

Communication & Gravitas: Excellent stakeholder management skills with the professional authority to enforce discipline and halt releases if technical or business criteria are not met.

## Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

Experience in the insurance or financial services domain (or other regulated industries).

Knowledge of security, compliance (SOC2/ISO), or audit processes as they relate to release operations.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.

Familiarity with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles such as Error Budgets and SLIs/SLOs.

Why Join Sureify?

At Sureify, you’ll be part of a collaborative, innovation-driven culture where your expertise will directly influence the quality and success of products, transforming the life insurance landscape. You’ll work alongside passionate technologists and industry experts, tackling complex challenges with cutting-edge technologies while helping shape the future of digital insurance.

Our Guiding Principles

Our products are for nothing if their creators are not fulfilled in their work. We want our employees to flourish at Sureify. We do not fawn over status or titles, instead, we honor effort and intelligence. The best idea wins no matter which colleague proposed it. We do not shortcut our mission with overblown claims or false promises. Sticking to the truth is both a strategy and a principle for us.

Sureify is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

If you are a California resident, please be aware Sureify collects personal information from you during the application process, which may include your name, contact details, employment history, and educational background, in accordance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). We use this information solely to evaluate your candidacy for employment and may share it with internal hiring personnel as needed.

## About Sureify

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sureify provides a modular SaaS product suite that empowers life insurance and annuity carriers to create modern digital experiences for acquiring, servicing, and engaging policyholders and agents.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Late-stage VC-backed; last known stage: Incubator/Accelerator)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, USA (with offices in India)
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Dustin Yoder

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Life Insurance & Annuities Technology (InsurTech)
- **Target customers**: B2B – life and annuity insurance carriers (Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To modernize the life insurance and annuity industry by helping companies service, engage, and sell to their customers with one enterprise product suite." [sureify.com](https://www.sureify.com/about-sureify/)

## Products & Services
- **LifetimeACQUIRE**: A configurable digital sales experience for buyers and agents, enabling online application and underwriting.
- **LifetimeSERVICE**: A comprehensive web and mobile self-servicing portal for policyholders, available 24/7/365.
- **LifetimeAGENT**: A unified portal for life and annuity agents to manage business, policies, and activity with real-time carrier data.
- **LifetimeENGAGE**: A digital engagement engine that fosters meaningful, ongoing connections between carriers and consumers.
- **CoreCONNECT**: A digital experience and data integration engine that connects legacy carrier systems to modern front-end experiences via APIs.

All products are part of the **Lifetime Suite** and can be purchased and implemented individually or as a full stack. [sureify.com](https://www.sureify.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: **Total Funding** – $25.83M raised to date [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/sureify)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors include Hannover Re, Aspen Capital Group, TIMIA Capital, Plug and Play Ventures, and TalentBridge23 Incubator. Customers include AAA, Allstate, and Amica. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/sureify)
- **Growth Signals**: The company has successfully completed a SOC 2 Type II audit, operates with a partnership mentality alongside carriers, and emphasizes a "systematic approach" to digital transformation in a legacy-heavy industry.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Modular, non-disruptive SaaS**: Products can be implemented without replacing core legacy systems, lowering the barrier for large carriers.
- **End-to-end coverage**: The Lifetime suite covers acquisition, service, and engagement across the entire policy lifecycle, creating a sticky ecosystem.
- **Deep domain expertise**: Founded by the son of a life agent who identified the industry’s specific digital gap, giving the team both tech and insurance industry credibility.
- **Security compliance**: SOC 2 Type II certified, a critical requirement for enterprise insurance clients.

## Strategic Focus
- Continuing to expand the Lifetime suite’s capabilities to cover the full policy lifecycle from application to claims.
- Deepening partnerships with large carriers (e.g., AAA, Allstate, Amica) to drive further adoption.
- Leveraging CoreCONNECT to enable seamless integration with legacy systems, unlocking digital transformation for more conservative insurers.
- Maintaining a "partnership mentality" over a pure product drop-off approach, configuring solutions for individual carrier needs.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: The vast majority of roles are listed as "US - Remote" or "Remote - Canada," with full flexibility for remote work. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sureify)
- **Comprehensive benefits**: Health, dental, and vision insurance; 401k retirement plan; short-term and long-term disability; life insurance; paid maternal and paternal leave; generous PTO; and flexible schedules. [sureify.com](https://www.sureify.com/about-sureify/)
- **Diversity & fulfillment**: The company explicitly states, "Our products are for nothing if their creators are not fulfilled in their work" and focuses on diversity as a core value.
- **Team composition**: A blend of insurance veterans and outsiders from tech/creative backgrounds, suggesting a collaborative and innovative rather than purely bureaucratic environment.
- **Open roles in Engineering, Product & Design, Professional Services, Sales & Marketing, and Customer Support** – indicating a growing organization with cross-functional opportunities.

## Sources
1. [sureify.com](https://www.sureify.com/)
2. [sureify.com – About](https://www.sureify.com/about-sureify/)
3. [greenhouse.io – Sureify Jobs](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sureify)
4. [cbinsights.com – Sureify Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/sureify)

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