Software Release Manager

Own Tailscale’s software release process through technical coordination, rollout planning, and trusted collaboration across a fully distributed company.

As Release Manager, you will build release management from the ground up and coordinate how Tailscale ships products internally and to customers. You will work with engineering leads, product managers, TPMs, and support while establishing cadence, roles, tooling, and operating norms. Technical fluency in build pipelines, branching strategies, feature flags, and rollout mechanics is essential.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and continuously improve release management processes
• Define cadence, readiness criteria, rollouts, and go-no-go decisions
• Build tooling, templates, runbooks, and release documentation
• Coordinate cross-team planning to keep releases on schedule
• Track operational metrics and drive systemic improvements

Requirements:

• Five-plus years in engineering operations or release management
• Experience building or significantly improving release processes
• Technical understanding of build and deployment pipelines
• Knowledge of branching strategies and production operations
• Comfort creating structure from ambiguity

Apply release coordination, technical judgment, and operational improvement skills to help Tailscale ship confidently and efficiently.