Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
At Lingo, we?re building a groundbreaking health platform that combines continuous biosensor data, real-time analytics, and personalized insights to help people live fuller, longer, and healthier lives. Our systems ingest millions of sensor readings daily, powering experiences for consumers and partners worldwide, with the reliability and scalability of cloud-native, enterprise-grade platforms.
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You?ll also have access to:
Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
Tuition reimbursement, the student debt program and education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor?s degree.
A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
THE OPPORTUNITY
This Senior Release Engineer? position works onsite in our Alameda, CA location for Lingo.
As a Senior Release Engineer, you will play a key role in ensuring the reliable, secure, and efficient delivery of software releases across Lingo\'s mobile applications, backend services, and cloud platforms. You will lead end-to-end release planning and execution, partnering with Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, QARA, Product Management, and Program Management teams to drive deployment readiness, release governance, and continuous process improvement.
In this role, you will oversee release coordination across multiple teams and technologies, helping to deliver high-quality software while minimizing risk and maintaining compliance with established standards. You will also be responsible for mobile application release management, including app store submissions and publication activities for the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise with operational excellence, project leadership, and effective cross-functional collaboration. This is an opportunity to influence release strategy, advance CI/CD and automation capabilities, improve engineering efficiency, and contribute to the delivery of innovative digital health solutions that positively impact customers worldwide.
What You\'ll Work On
Plan, coordinate, and execute software releases across website, mobile applications, backend services, data platform and cloud platforms.
Track release activities, milestones, dependencies and action items to ensure on-time and high-quality delivery.
Establish and maintain release records and audit-ready documentation to support compliance, traceability and operational excellence.
Partner with engineering and QA teams to validate release readiness, quality gates, test completion, security reviews, and rollback procedures.
Manage release dependencies, risks, deployment communications, and stakeholder expectations across multiple teams and environments.
Coordinate mobile application release activities, including App Store and Google Play submissions, release scheduling, compliance reviews, phased rollouts, production approvals, and post-release monitoring.
Manage end-to-end app submission processes, ensuring releases meet Apple App Store and Google Play requirements, policies, and publishing timelines.
Support and optimize CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment reliability, efficiency, and release velocity.
Partner with DevOps and platform teams to automate release processes and reduce manual deployment activities.
Monitor production deployments and coordinate issue triage, incident management, and rollback activities when necessary.
Ensure releases meet security, compliance, performance, and operational readiness standards.
Analyze release outcomes, track deployment metrics, and drive continuous improvements to release processes, tooling, and governance.
Collaborate with Product and Program Management teams to align release cadence with business priorities and roadmap milestones.
Provide technical leadership and guidance on release engineering best practices across distributed engineering teams.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor?s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of experience in Release Engineering, Release Management, DevOps, Software Delivery, or related technical roles.
Strong understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Agile methodologies, and release management best practices.
Experience managing releases in cloud-native, SaaS, mobile, or distributed software environments.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms such as Harness, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools.
Experience with deployment automation, environment management, and release orchestration.
Hands-on experience managing mobile application releases and submissions to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
Strong understanding of App Store Connect, Google Play Console, app review processes, provisioning profiles, signing certificates, release approvals, phased rollouts, and mobile deployment best practices.
Strong documentation skills with experience creating and maintaining release notes, deployment plans, runbooks, change records and operational support documentation.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and coordinate activities across globally distributed teams.
Excellent verbal, written, and stakeholder communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting regulated environments such as healthcare, medical devices or life sciences.
Experience implementing DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and continuous delivery practices.
Knowledge of change management, production support, and incident management processes.
Experience supporting global mobile application launches and coordinating app store releases across multiple regions.
Familiarity with TestFlight, Firebase App Distribution, mobile release automation tools, and beta testing frameworks.
Experience leading release activities across multiple products, teams, vendors, and geographic regions.
Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:
Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
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The base pay for this position is $90,000.00 ? $180,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
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