Salesforce Release Engineer/Admin

As a Salesforce Release Engineer/Admin at GitLab, you will be the bridge between modern development practices and reliable Salesforce operations. You will combine the strategic thinking of a Salesforce administrator with the technical precision of DevOps, helping our teams ship changes to Salesforce quickly, safely, and predictably. In this role, you will work at the intersection of business needs and technical delivery, partnering with stakeholders across the company to keep our Salesforce ecosystem stable while enabling rapid, high-quality releases. Your work will directly impact how GitLab team members sell, support customers, and run the business by ensuring that new Salesforce features and fixes are delivered smoothly across environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage coordinated Salesforce releases across development, sandbox, user acceptance testing (UAT), and production environments
• Implement automated testing, deployment, and rollback strategies using tools such as Salesforce DX, Copado, or Gearset
• Configure and maintain Salesforce features such as custom objects, fields, validation rules, automation, and security settings to meet evolving business needs
• Oversee sandbox strategy, including refresh schedules, data seeding, and environment alignment, to support ongoing development, testing, and user acceptance
• Monitor Salesforce system performance and release health, troubleshoot issues, and drive root cause analysis and remediation for deployment and configuration problems

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 4 to 5 years of Salesforce administration experience with deep platform configuration and user management expertise
• Hands-on release management experience using Salesforce deployment tools such as Salesforce DX, Change Sets, Copado, or Gearset
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices for Salesforce, including continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), automated testing, and multi-environment release strategies
• Proficiency with Salesforce data management tools (for example, Data Loader) for imports, exports, data quality maintenance, and mass updates
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders in a distributed, remote environment