Engineering Manager, Release Engineering

Workplace Model Superhuman offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role in Berlin. This approach balances dedicated focus time with in-person collaboration to foster trust, innovation, and team culture.

About Superhuman Superhuman is the AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone. The Superhuman suite brings AI wherever people work, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites. Our products include Grammarly writing assistance, Superhuman Docs collaborative workspaces, Mail inbox management, and Go, a proactive AI assistant. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers over 40 million people, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and focus on what matters.

The Opportunity We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Developer Experience and Release Engineering team in Berlin. You will own how code travels from a developer commit to millions of users across Grammarly, Superhuman Docs, and Superhuman Mail.

As our product suite grows, so do our engineering teams and the surfaces we release on (web, desktop, mobile, browser extensions, APIs). Our team makes shipping fast, safe, and routine. We build CI/CD platforms, release pipelines, and rollout tooling that empower product teams to deploy multiple times a day with confidence. You will lead engineers at the intersection of developer productivity, infrastructure, and reliability, partnering closely with Product Engineering, SRE, Platform, and Security.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow an engineering team; hire top talent and build an inclusive culture in Berlin and across distributed teams.

• Own the roadmap and technical strategy for scalable CI/CD, build systems, and multi-surface release tooling.

• Drive faster, safer delivery by tracking and improving DORA metrics (lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and MTTR).

• Build and operate release tooling, including progressive rollouts, canaries, feature flags, automated rollbacks, and release health monitoring.

• Coordinate cross-product release trains and launches in partnership with Product, QA, Support, and Marketing.

• Collaborate with SRE, Infrastructure, and Security to safeguard artifact integrity, supply chain security, and access controls.

• Eliminate developer friction by optimizing build and test durations, removing pipeline flakiness, and enabling self-service workflows.

• Serve as an escalation point and Incident Commander for release-related incidents, leading blameless postmortems.

• Maintain a balance between urgent pipeline fixes and foundational long-term platform investments.

• Stay technically hands-on through architectural reviews, pipeline debugging, and setting code quality standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software, DevOps, or release engineering experience, including 2+ years managing engineers with a track record of hiring and retention.

• Deep hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms (such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Buildkite, or Bazel) and pipeline architecture trade-offs.

• Proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container orchestration systems like Kubernetes.

• Proven experience operating large-scale progressive delivery systems, canary deployments, feature flagging, and automated rollbacks.

• Familiarity with releasing software across diverse surfaces (web, mobile, desktop, extensions, or APIs).

• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), observability tooling, and software supply chain security standards.

• Experience serving as an Incident Commander and managing distributed engineering teams.

• Strong ability to operate autonomously in ambiguous environments while keeping engineering standards high.

Benefits (Germany)

• Competitive compensation, mental health resources, life care, and generous paid time off.

• Home office setup allowance, wellness stipends, pet care perks, and professional development budgets.

• Berlin relocation package: visa assistance, destination settling-in services, and a relocation bonus for temporary housing.