Manager - Release Engineering

Who We Are

Since 1906, New Balance has empowered people through sport and craftsmanship to create positive change in communities around the world. We innovate fearlessly, guided by our core values and driven by the belief that conventions were meant to be challenged. We foster a culture in which every associate feels welcomed and respected, where leaders and creatives are inspired to shape the world of tomorrow by taking bold action today.

We are currently seeking a Manager of Release Engineering to support New Balance’s Global Technology Organization. This role offers the exciting opportunity to introduce and drive improvements in release engineering tools, processes and methodologies for New Balance’s technology stack. This role will collaborate with other engineering teams such as Dev Ops, quality engineering, software development and others to implement a build, verification test and deployment software stack to support New Balance’s applications and technologies.

The successful candidate will champion the reliable delivery of software through continuous improvement and drive automation of the various pipelines, be accountable for the quality of the builds and deployments while interacting with other teams to drive dependency resolution. In addition, you will need to promote a positive relationship with engineering partners and collaborate with them to plan, design, develop and test release engineering build solutions.

• Design, code, implement and enhance existing software solutions that integrate with our Engineering Platform that build, test and automate deployment of New Balance’s application stack.
• Partner with various engineering teams such as Dev Ops, quality engineering, software development and release management to build scalable tools and infrastructure to build their software.
• Collaboratively iterate on improvements to engineering best practices.
• Participate in cross-functional initiatives to gather requirements from other engineering teams and translate them into software features that enhance reliability and functionality of the build and deployment systems.
• Collaborate with peers and engineering partners on ways Release Engineering can improve functionality, performance and scale.
• Be on-call as required during critical periods in application release cycles and agree to respond to incidents.

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, Dev Ops, and/or release management
• 5+ years of experience designing and developing software, as well as managing development tool chains
• 2-4 years in management or lead role, with direct reports or cross-functional influence
• Experience mentoring engineers, managing stakeholders and driving process adoption across teams
• Demonstrated proficiency with tools, technologies and platforms such as git, github, Jenkins, Azure Services including Azure Dev Ops
• Experience developing application and platform solutions in a matrixed environment
• Proven ability to collaborate and communicate on projects (champion, demo/POC, pitch concepts)
• Experience scripting or coding in languages such as bash, perl, python, ruby, java
• Kubernetes deployment tooling and test automation experience
• Ability to effectively communicate, build trust and credibility across distributed and matrixed teams; excellent presentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor team members on release best practices and automation

Our products are only as good as the people we hire, so we make sure to hire the best and treat them accordingly. New Balance offers a comprehensive traditional benefits package including three options for medical insurance as well as dental, vision, life insurance and 401K. We also proudly offer a slate of more nontraditional perks – opportunities like online learning and development courses, tuition reimbursement, $100 monthly student loan support and various mentorship programs – that encourage our associates to grow personally as they develop professionally.

You’ll also enjoy a yearly $1,000 lifestyle reimbursement, 4 weeks of vacations, 12 holidays and generous parental leave, because…