Senior Engineering Manager, Release Engineering
Toronto · 10+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 14, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 10+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Toronto
About PagerDuty
- PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management. The PagerDuty Operations Cloud is an AI-powered platform that empowers business resilience and drives operational efficiency for enterprises. With a generative AI assistant at its core, PagerDuty empowers teams to detect and resolve issues in real time, orchestrate complex workflows, and drive continuous improvement across their digital operations. Trusted by nearly half of both the Fortune 500 and the Forbes AI 50, as well as approximately two-thirds of the Fortune 100, PagerDuty is essential for delivering always-on digital experiences to modern businesses
- PagerDuty is Great Place to Work-certified™, a Fortune Best Workplace for Millennials, a Fortune Best Medium Workplace, a Fortune Best Workplace in Technology, and a top rated product on TrustRadius and G2.
- Go behind-the-scenes on our careers site and @pagerduty on Instagram.
- Additional Information
- PagerDuty is an equal opportunity employer. PagerDuty does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, parental status, veteran status, or disability status. Your privacy is important to us. By submitting an application, you confirm that you have read and understand PagerDuty's Privacy Policy.
- PagerDuty is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application process. Should you require accommodation, please email accommodation@pagerduty.com and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.
About the role
- Release Engineering decides how fast and safely code reaches customers at PagerDuty.
- The Senior Engineering Manager will build the delivery system for this new pace, including CI/CD platforms, GitOps-defined environments, and feedback loops for AI agents.
- This leadership role involves managing a team of experienced platform engineers and setting the delivery direction for all of PagerDuty Engineering.
Responsibilities
- Set the multi-year roadmap for how PagerDuty builds, tests and deploys software.
- Lead our GitOps transformation, so every environment is defined in Git and every change is promoted and rolled back the same way.
- Bring CI-quality checks into the developer and agent loop, so problems are caught in minutes, before code ever reaches a merge gate.
- Give engineers and AI agents short-lived, isolated environments to test changes safely.
- Rework code review so people spend their time on changes that carry real risk, with automated checks covering the rest, including verifying that AI-written tests actually test something.
- Take our next CI/CD platform from selection to full adoption across Engineering.
- Own our delivery metrics, including Change Failure Rate, and report them to engineering leadership monthly, pairing every speed metric with a quality measure.
- Keep the cost of CI and AI tooling predictable as usage grows.
- Hire, coach and grow senior engineers.
- Share what we learn through talks, blog posts and the wider engineering community.
Requirements
- 10+ years in platform engineering, SRE or DevOps, including at least 5 years managing engineers.
- Proven experience leading a GitOps or deployment platform migration across many teams and clusters.
- A track record of taking a CI/CD platform from selection to full adoption across an engineering organization.
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, CI/CD systems and infrastructure as code.
- Hands-on use of AI coding agents, with experience changing a pipeline or process because of their impact on delivery speed and stability.
- The ability to explain technical tradeoffs to executives in plain language.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience running Argo CD, Buildkite or CircleCI at scale.
- Experience with progressive delivery, such as canary releases or feature-flag rollouts.
- Experience with vendor and budget management.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Flexible work arrangements
- Company equity
- ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Program)
- Retirement or pension plan
- Generous paid vacation time
- Paid holidays and sick leave
- Dutonian Wellness Days & HibernationDuty
- Paid parental leave
Workplace
- This role will require you to be in office 2 times a week
- PagerDuty operates a hybrid work model
Skills
- Git
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Argo CD
- Buildkite
- CircleCI
- Infrastructure As Code
