Kaluza

Staff Release Engineer

Kaluza
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6 hours ago
London, United Kingdom or Bristol, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Define the technical strategy, global architecture, and long-term roadmap for Kaluza’s release ecosystems and centralized developer tooling.
  • Design and scale systems that reliably move software from source to production across engineering domains.
  • Embed automated deployment, release, testing, SRE, and AI-enabled practices to improve delivery speed, safety, and reduce toil.
  • Establish and continuously improve company-wide DevOps standards, frameworks, DORA metrics, compliance, and auditability.
  • Own the strategy for deployment platforms and infrastructure-as-code tooling across secure, scalable, multi-tenant SaaS environments.
  • Provide technical ownership, mentorship, and upskilling for engineers across the organization.
  • Lead strategic audits and design work while building high-impact proofs of concept for mission-critical release infrastructure.

Requirements

  • Deep experience architecting, scaling, and maintaining enterprise-grade CI/CD frameworks, release pipelines, and internal developer platforms in cloud-native environments.
  • Comprehensive mastery of DevOps practices, SDLC automation, and practical use of DORA metrics to improve engineering productivity.
  • Proven experience mentoring senior engineering talent, setting technical strategy, and building consensus across multidisciplinary teams.
  • Extensive hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and GitHub Actions.
  • Experience with GitHub Enterprise administration and GitHubAsCode is preferred.
  • Strong developer-focused and data-driven approach to improving developer experience and eliminating toil.
  • Experience integrating LLMs into production applications or developer workflows, including prompt engineering, context management, and evaluation, is advantageous.
  • Experience introducing AI-assisted developer tooling such as Copilot, Cursor, or Claude and upskilling colleagues is advantageous.
  • Enterprise release strategy experience for regulated global platforms, with energy technology, smart-device orchestration, billing SaaS, or high-throughput IoT exposure preferred.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid working with an expectation of 3 days per week in the office in London or Bristol.
  • Pension scheme, discretionary bonus scheme, private medical insurance with virtual GP, and life assurance.
  • 26 days of holiday plus flexible bank holidays providing up to 8 additional selectable days.
  • Progressive leave policy, including enhanced paid leave for primary and secondary caregivers.
  • Personal learning budget, home office budget, 5% flex fund, and access to retail discounts through Perks at Work.
  • Access to Furthr climate-action app, free mortgage advice, eye tests, and other perks.

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About Kaluza

501-1,000 employees

Kaluza builds an energy software platform for utilities and suppliers to run billing, smart EV charging, and real-time demand response across homes, devices, markets and grids. It sells its platform and services to energy companies and OEM partners; customers include OVO, AGL and ENGIE, with collaborations with Volvo and Volkswagen. Headquartered in London and B Corp‑certified, Kaluza operates across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, including a joint venture with Mitsubishi in Japan.

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