About the Position

We are seeking a Senior Release Engineer (Go / Erlang) to join our team. This role involves taking technical ownership of the release process for two large open-source infrastructure products maintained on behalf of a US enterprise software vendor.

About AltexSoft

We are looking for a senior engineer to manage the release process, focusing on vulnerability remediation, dependency and runtime upgrades, ensuring builds pass across all supported platforms, and shipping a small number of thoroughly validated releases each year. This is not a feature-building role.

About the Project

You will act as the technical owner of the release train and as the client's primary engineering contact. This position combines deep hands-on work in Go and Erlang/OTP with direct, English-language communication with the customer's package, product, and documentation teams. You will also guide and review a mid-level engineer, ensuring no critical area of the codebase depends on one person.

Responsibilities

Own the release train end to end for both products: dependency bumps, build, test, package, promotion from unstable to stable, and technical release notes.
Triage vulnerability reports, judge exploitability and severity, and choose the remediation route, patch, upgrade, replace, or defer within agreed limits on certified cryptography, OS compatibility, and offline distribution bundles.
Handle Go dependency work across roughly thirty microservices: module and lockfile updates, runtime upgrades, protobuf/gRPC regeneration, and fixing whatever breaks.
Maintain in-house forks of unmaintained Erlang libraries: merge upstream security fixes, reconcile local patches, manage build configuration and lockfiles, and re-pin floating branches to fixed commits.
Decide how to replace deprecated or end-of-life libraries within agreed limits, escalating anything with architectural impact to the client.
Coordinate release sign-off with the client's packaging, product, and documentation teams; mentor and review a mid-level engineer, transferring knowledge of the forks and packaging pipeline.

Requirements

5+ years in backend, platform, or release engineering.
Production Go experience in a large, multi-service codebase, modules, dependency management, testing.
Genuine hands-on Erlang/OTP: reading, patching, compiling, and releasing services; comfortable with rebar3 and dependencies pinned to forked repos and branches.
Practical vulnerability-management experience: reading advisories and scanner output (OSV, Dependabot, Snyk, or similar), reasoning about transitive risk, and choosing between patching, upgrading, and replacing a component.
Demonstrated ownership of releases for a shipped product: version strategy, channel promotion, changelogs, go/no-go decisions.
Solid Linux fundamentals, shell scripting, Docker.
Persistence to unpick long, uninformative build failures.
Experience mentoring and reviewing other engineers' work.
English at C1, written and spoken, for direct client communication.
Comfort working autonomously with low supervision - quiet stretches, then intense release periods.
Experience using AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, or similar) day to day.

Nice to Have

Experience in a large configuration-management or infrastructure-automation ecosystem, packaging toolchains, release automation, verification suites.
Ruby and Bundler; hosted CI/CD platforms and pipeline maintenance.
OpenResty/Lua, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, Nginx.
Experience supporting products in maintenance mode or nearing end-of-life.
Experience assembling air-gapped release bundles for enterprise customers.
Awareness of FIPS-validated cryptography constraints on upgrades; declarative database migration tooling.
Experience building AI-powered solutions or integrating AI pipelines/APIs.

We Offer

Work-life Balance

Possibility to work remotely.

Health Care

Reimbursement of medical expenses.
Online morning exercise.

Education

Compensation for trainings, seminars, conferences.
Free access to the Pluralsight and ACloudGuru knowledge base.
Access to the AltexSoft library with top-notch materials.
A mentor for a probation period.
Engagement in our Mentorship Hub program as a mentor or a mentee to foster professional growth and development.

Development

Horizontally - master new technologies at internal courses.
Vertically - choose your own career path through Competency trees.

Recognition Program

All your activities are marked by points that can be exchanged for gifts to fit any taste.

Contact

Contact our Talent Acquisition Specialist

Judith Kenneth

[email protected]

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Senior Release Engineer (Go / Erlang)

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