Staff Release Engineer

Location: Bristol or London, UK (hybrid, three days a week in the office)

Level: Staff Engineer TL2

Team: Release Engineering

Salary: £93,600 - £117,000 + discretionary bonus

Contract: Permanent

Reporting To: Software Engineering manager

Please note: This role requires an existing right to work in the UK. We can’t offer visa sponsorship, but we review sponsorship role by role, so keep an eye on our careers site for future opportunities.

About Kaluza

Kaluza is the Energy Intelligence Platform, turning energy complexity into seamless coordination. We help energy companies overcome today’s challenges while accelerating the shift to a clean, electrified future.

Our platform orchestrates millions of real-time decisions across homes, devices, markets and grids. By combining predictive algorithms with human-centred design, Kaluza makes clean energy dependable, affordable and adaptive to everyday life.

With teams across Europe, Asia and Australia, and a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan, we power leading companies including OVO, AGL and ENGIE, as well as innovators like Volvo and Volkswagen.

What you'll do

As a Staff Release Engineer, you will set the technical strategy and global architecture for Kaluza’s continuous integration, delivery, and automated release ecosystems. You will empower our entire engineering organization to deploy high-quality software safely, frequently, and with minimal friction.

• Architect Release Ecosystems: Lead the high-level design and long-term roadmap definition for building, scaling, and governing the systems and practices that reliably move software from source to production through centralized developer tooling across all Kaluza engineering domains. 
• Drive Engineering Productivity & SRE Practices: Strategize and embed automated deployment & release mechanisms, testing frameworks, Site Reliability Engineering principles and AI tooling  to drastically reduce toil and accelerate software delivery speed and safety across the organization. 
• Establish Global Standards & Metrics: Lead the definition, continuous improvement and enforcement of company-wide DevOps practices, standards, and frameworks such as DORA for compliance and auditability but also to measure and target improvements that elevate engineering productivity.
• Orchestrate Complex Infrastructure Tooling: Own the strategy for deployment platforms and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, ArgoCD), ensuring multi-tenant SaaS environments are secure, scalable, and efficient.
• Mentor & Upskill: Provide technical ownership, guidance, and mentorship to engineers across Kaluza, fostering deep expertise in automated delivery, developer experience, and modern release engineering practices including AI enablement.
• Hands-off & Hands-on Technical Leadership: Drive platform-wide release architecture through audits and strategic design, while retaining the capability to build high-impact proofs-of-concept for mission-critical release infrastructure.

What you'll bring

Ideally you'll have:

• Strategic CI/CD & Release Architect: Deep experience architecting, scaling, and maintaining enterprise-grade CI/CD frameworks, release pipelines, and internal developer platforms in cloud-native environments.
• DevOps & DORA Expert: Comprehensive mastery of DevOps practices, software development lifecycle (SDLC) automation, and practical application of DORA metrics to drive measurable engineering productivity.
• Technical Mentor & Leader: A proven track record of upskilling senior engineering talent, driving technical strategy, and establishing consensus across multi-disciplinary engineering domains.
• Infrastructure & Automation Mastery: Extensive hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), container orchestration (Kubernetes, ArgoCD), and workflow automation (GitHub Actions). Experience of GitHub Enterprise administration and GitHubAsCode experience would be a bonus.
• Developer-Centric & Data-Driven: Strong customer obsession—viewing developers as your primary customers—paired with data-driven decision-making to optimize developer experience and eliminate toil.

What will set you apart:

• LLM Integration Experience: Hands-on experience integrating large language models into production applications or developer workflows, whether via APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock) or open-source models, with a solid understanding of prompt engineering, context management, and evaluation.
• AI Tooling Advocacy: A track record of introducing AI-assisted developer tooling and workflows (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, Claude, or similar) into a team and upskilling colleagues, not just using it personally.
• Enterprise Release Strategy & Domain Exposure: Experience designing, building, and governance-proofing release architectures specifically for enterprise clients or highly regulated global platforms, ideally with direct domain exposure to energy technology, smart device orchestration, billing SaaS platforms, or high-throughput IoT platforms.

Our Values

Five values guide how we work at Kaluza:

• Play to win: Collective pride in decarbonising energy at scale.
• Solve the real problem: Cutting through complexity to focus on real-world outcomes.
• Build trust every day: Consistency, transparency and doing what we say.
• Own the outcome: Full accountability, wins and setbacks, without ego.
• Go further together: Collaboration, respect and different perspectives.

Our Perks

• Time off and family: 26 days’ holiday, plus 26 weeks’ full pay for new parents with no qualifying service period
• Health and security: Private medical insurance with virtual GP, life assurance, pension scheme, free mortgage advice and eye tests
• Pay and flexibility: Discretionary bonus, a Flex Fund of 5% [of salary] to spend on the benefits you want most, retail discounts through Perks at Work
• Growth and setup: Personal learning budget, home office budget
• Climate: Furthr, our climate action app

Come as you are

We want to meet people from all walks of life. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be, and we recognise talent on merit and potential. If you’re excited about the role but don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you.

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