About the Role
Lingo is building a groundbreaking health platform that combines continuous biosensor data, real-time analytics, and personalized insights to help people live fuller, longer, and healthier lives. This Senior Release Engineer position plays a key role in ensuring the reliable, secure, and efficient delivery of software releases across Lingo's mobile applications, backend services, and cloud platforms.
Responsibilities
- Plan, coordinate, and execute software releases across website, mobile applications, backend services, data platform and cloud platforms.
- Track release activities, milestones, dependencies and action items to ensure on-time and high-quality delivery.
- Establish and maintain release records and audit-ready documentation to support compliance, traceability and operational excellence.
- Partner with engineering and QA teams to validate release readiness, quality gates, test completion, security reviews, and rollback procedures.
- Manage release dependencies, risks, deployment communications, and stakeholder expectations across multiple teams and environments.
- Coordinate mobile application release activities, including App Store and Google Play submissions, release scheduling, compliance reviews, phased rollouts, production approvals, and post-release monitoring.
- Manage end-to-end app submission processes, ensuring releases meet Apple App Store and Google Play requirements, policies, and publishing timelines.
- Support and optimize CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment reliability, efficiency, and release velocity.
- Partner with DevOps and platform teams to automate release processes and reduce manual deployment activities.
- Monitor production deployments and coordinate issue triage, incident management, and rollback activities when necessary.
- Ensure releases meet security, compliance, performance, and operational readiness standards.
- Analyze release outcomes, track deployment metrics, and drive continuous improvements to release processes, tooling, and governance.
- Collaborate with Product and Program Management teams to align release cadence with business priorities and roadmap milestones.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance on release engineering best practices across distributed engineering teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in Release Engineering, Release Management, DevOps, Software Delivery, or related technical roles.
- Strong understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Agile methodologies, and release management best practices.
- Experience managing releases in cloud-native, SaaS, mobile, or distributed software environments.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms such as Harness, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools.
- Experience with deployment automation, environment management, and release orchestration.
- Hands-on experience managing mobile application releases and submissions to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
- Strong understanding of App Store Connect, Google Play Console, app review processes, provisioning profiles, signing certificates, release approvals, phased rollouts, and mobile deployment best practices.
- Strong documentation skills with experience creating and maintaining release notes, deployment plans, runbooks, change records and operational support documentation.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and coordinate activities across globally distributed teams.
- Excellent verbal, written, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Experience supporting regulated environments such as healthcare, medical devices or life sciences.
- Experience implementing DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and continuous delivery practices.
- Knowledge of change management, production support, and incident management processes.
- Experience supporting global mobile application launches and coordinating app store releases across multiple regions.
- Familiarity with TestFlight, Firebase App Distribution, mobile release automation tools, and beta testing frameworks.
- Experience leading release activities across multiple products, teams, vendors, and geographic regions.
Skills
- Release Engineering
- Release Management
- DevOps
- Software Delivery
- CI/CD
- Harness
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- Deployment Automation
- Environment Management
- Release Orchestration
- Mobile Application Releases
- App Store Submissions
- Google Play Submissions
- App Store Connect
- Google Play Console
- SDLC
- Agile Methodologies
- Documentation
- Communication
Location
- Alameda, CA
Work Type
- Onsite
- Standard Work Shift
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $90,000.00 – $180,000.00
Benefits
- Free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan
- Excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
- Tuition reimbursement
- Freedom 2 Save student debt program
- FreeU education benefit
About the Company
- Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life.
- Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines.
- Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
Equal Opportunity
- Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
- Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
