F5 Sr Director Engineering Release Management 

United States, California, San Jose 

925625740

Position Overview

The Senior Director of Engineering, Release Management will lead and oversee the organization's release management strategy and execution, ensuring smooth and reliable software delivery across multiple product lines. This role combines technical expertise, strategic thinking, and leadership skills to optimize the release process and drive engineering excellence.

Strategic Leadership:

• Develop and implement the organization's release management strategy, aligning with business objectives and engineering capabilities.
• Drive the architecture, execution and delivery of CI/CD platforms, delivery pipelines and related engineering builds/branches and environments.
• Define and maintain release management processes, standards, and best practices across engineering teams.
• Oversee the technical infrastructure supporting release processes, including CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, and testing frameworks.
• Guide the implementation of modern release practices such as feature flags, canary deployments, and automated rollback mechanisms.
• Create the strategy for building and owning a self-service; enterprise-scale experimentation platform.
• Ensure robust monitoring and alerting systems are in place for release health tracking.
• Foster a culture of collaboration and experimentation across engineering and product to enable rapid prototyping, iteration and a “fail-forward” mindset for new feature development.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve release velocity, quality, and reliability.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Operations leaders to establish release roadmaps and priorities.
• Oversee the end-to-end release lifecycle, from planning through deployment and post-release monitoring.
• Establish metrics and KPIs to measure release performance and quality.
• Implement risk management strategies to minimize release-related incidents.
• Establish release communication protocols and ensure transparency.

Process Optimization:

• Streamline release processes to reduce cycle time and increase deployment frequency.
• Implement and maintain release governance frameworks.
• Lead incident post-mortem and drive process improvements.
• Establish release communication protocols and ensure transparency.

Qualifications and Experience:

• 10+ years of engineering experience with 5+ years in release management.
• 5+ years of people management experience, preferably in a director-level role.
• Strong track record of implementing and scaling release processes in high-growth environments.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD, DevOps practices, and modern deployment technologies.
• Strong expertise in branching strategies.
• Experience building or using A/B testing infrastructure and deep understanding of SRE operating models.
• Experience setting up complete end to end fully integrated delivery system (source control management, build tools, artifact repositories, deployment and monitoring systems).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience with microservices architecture, releasing 30+ microservices across multiple geo’s and distributed systems.
• Track record of successful organizational transformation initiatives.
• Strong background in agile methodologies and scaled agile frameworks.

Impact & Scope:

• Lead a team of 5-10 direct reports with broader influence across engineering organization.
• Manage release processes for multiple product lines and services.
• Significant influence on engineering culture and practices.
• Direct impact on product quality and customer satisfaction.
• Key role in scaling engineering operations and improving delivery capabilities.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

The annual base pay for this position is: $263,840.00 - $395,760.00