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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff / Senior Release Platform Engineer - **Company:** Super Technologies - **Location:** Netherlands - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Static Program Analysis, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Github, Octopus Deploy, SonarQube, Test Management, TypeScript, Erlang, Delivery Pipeline, Caching, Gitlab-ci, Git Flow, Kubernetes, Deployment Automation, Build Tools, Front End Software Development, Terraform, Docker, Elixir, Service Stack, Jenkins, Golang - **Published:** August 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.nl/details/5835745756 ## About the Role * Strong software engineering fundamentals, with the ability to write and review good code, debug complex systems, and reason about trade-offs * Hands-on experience with CI/CD, release tooling, developer platforms, infrastructure platforms, internal tooling, or similar systems * Ability to work across different technology stacks and learn unfamiliar ecosystems without needing perfect context upfront * Experience with containerised or cloud-native systems such as Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps, ArgoCD, Terraform, or Helm * A practical platform mindset, with focus on adoption, reliability, simplicity, observability, and real impact for engineers * Good operational instincts, including an understanding of failure modes, rollback paths, incident response, and monitoring * Clear communication skills, with the ability to explain technical trade-offs to cross-functional teams without relying on jargon Nice to have * Experience with Bazel, monorepos, remote caching, hermetic builds, or large-scale build systems * Experience with Erlang, Elixir, BEAM operations, rebar3, Mix releases, or high-availability runtime environments * Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript build and release workflows, frontend deployment pipelines, or developer-facing platform UIs * Familiarity with GitHub Actions, Argo Workflows, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Buildkite * Familiarity with SonarQube, static analysis, coverage tooling, test infrastructure, or flaky-test management * Knowledge of DORA, SPACE, CI performance metrics, or engineering effectiveness dashboards * Experience with progressive delivery, canary releases, blue/green deployments, feature flags, or automated rollback ## Description You'll be joining Super Technologies' Release Engineering team, which owns the systems that help engineers build, test, release, deploy, observe, and roll back software. This team supports multiple delivery paths across different stacks, CI/CD systems, monorepos and polyrepos, Kubernetes, and GitOps, and is working to bring more coherence to that platform. As a Release Platform Engineer, you'll help build the paved roads that make it easier for teams across the business to ship safely and quickly. What the role involves * Build and evolve the platform capabilities that product engineers use to get code from commit to production * Improve CI/CD pipelines, build systems, release workflows, deployment automation, quality gates, observability, and developer productivity metrics * Consolidate delivery patterns across Go, Erlang, Elixir, JavaScript/TypeScript, and other stacks where it makes sense * Improve the speed and reliability of feedback loops, including PR checks, builds, tests, release pipelines, and deployment signals * Simplify release systems so engineers can resolve most delivery issues without needing a platform engineer in the loop * Embed quality and safety into the default delivery path instead of relying on manual process * Define clear contracts for platform capabilities, covering expected inputs, guarantees provided, how they're measured, and how other platform engineers can extend them * Partner with product teams to identify where delivery is slow, confusing, risky, or painful, and fix the underlying system rather than the symptom * Participate in operational ownership of the systems the team runs, including debugging failures, improving runbooks, reducing toil, and helping make on-call sustainable ## Related Videos - [Empowering Thousands of Developers: Our Journey to an Internal Developer Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1519-empowering-thousands-of-developers-our-journey-to-an-internal-developer-platform) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Bringing digital education to refugee and host communities in remote regions of Africa](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/644-bringing-digital-education-to-refugee-and-host-communities-in-remote-regions-of-africa) - [Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall) - [Retooling and refactoring - an investment in people.](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/371-retooling-and-refactoring-an-investment-in-people) - [GitOps for the people](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/815-gitops-for-the-people) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Find a Developer Job: 12 Best Job Sites For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/165-find-a-developer-job-12-best-job-sites-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 131 - AI'm not sure about OSS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/472-dev-digest-131-ai-m-not-sure-about-oss) - [What’s the Difference between a Junior, Mid, and Senior Developer?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/238-what-s-the-difference-between-a-junior-mid-and-senior-developer) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline)