We are looking for a Salesforce Release Engineer with hands-on experience using Gearset to manage, streamline, and continuously improve our Salesforce release process. This role is critical in ensuring the safe, predictable, and auditable deployment of changes across multiple Salesforce environments. The ideal candidate will have a background in release management, DevOps best practices, Salesforce configuration/development lifecycle, and cross-functional coordination. You will collaborate closely with Admins, Developers, QA, and Business Stakeholders to plan, test, and execute releases with high quality and minimal disruption.
About the Role
In this role, you will:
- Own and manage the end-to-end release lifecycle for Salesforce environments using Gearset as the primary deployment tool.
- Define and enforce release schedules, environments, and branching strategies to align with project and business timelines.
- Build and maintain deployment pipelines in Gearset, ensuring automated testing, validations, and backup processes are in place.
- Coordinate deployment activities across sandbox and production environments with Admins, Developers, and QA teams.
- Troubleshoot and resolve deployment issues, merge conflicts, and metadata inconsistencies.
- Establish and improve release governance, including change tracking, rollback plans, and environment audits.
- Create and maintain documentation for release processes, Git workflows, and Gearset configuration standards.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure clear communication of release scope, timing, and risks.
The Skills You Will Bring Include
- Experience: 2+ years in Salesforce release management or DevOps role, including at least 1 year of hands-on experience with Gearset.
- Salesforce Knowledge: Strong understanding of Salesforce metadata, platform architecture, and deployment best practices.
- Version Control: Experience working with Git-based workflows; familiarity with branching, pull requests, and merge strategies.
- Problem Solving: Able to quickly diagnose and resolve deployment issues and inconsistencies across environments.
- Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills; capable of interfacing with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Process Ownership: Demonstrated ability to build and optimize repeatable, scalable, and compliant release processes.
- Documentation: Proven experience creating process documentation, runbooks, and training materials.
We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. That's because these teams reflect a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don't be shy - apply today.
About Rapid7
Rapid7 is creating a more secure digital future for all by helping organizations strengthen their security programs in the face of accelerating digital transformation. Our portfolio of best-in-class solutions empowers security professionals to manage risk and eliminate threats across the entire threat landscape from apps to the cloud to traditional infrastructure to the dark web. We foster open source communities and cutting-edge research-using these insights to optimize our products and arm the global security community with the latest in attacker methods. Trusted by more than 10,000 customers worldwide, our industry-leading solutions and services help businesses stay ahead of attackers, ahead of the competition, and future-ready for what's next.
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At Rapid7, our vision is to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by harnessing our collective expertise and passion to challenge what’s possible and drive extraordinary impact. We’re building a dynamic and collaborative workplace where new ideas are welcome.
Protecting 11,000+ customers against bad actors and threats means we’re continuing to push the envelope - just like we’ve been doing for the past 20 years. If you’re ready to solve some of the toughest challenges in cybersecurity, we’re ready to help you take command of your career.
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With our products, research, and open source communities, we’re building a secure digital future for everyone. This means constantly learning and evolving in an industry that’s anything but stagnant. You’ll be faced with tough challenges, and given the support to find creative solutions that drive our business, and your career forward.
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