About the Company:

Rakuten India is the Development Centre and key technology hub of the Rakuten Group, Inc. We enable our businesses with our depth of knowledge in multiple streams of technology such as Mobile and Web Development, Web Analytics, Platform Development, Backend Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and much more. Our unique 24/7 support center ensures reliability and sustenance of the Rakuten Ecosystem. With dedicated centres of excellence for Mobile Application Development, Data Analytics, Engineering, DevOps and Information Security, we ensure the success of multiple units of Rakuten Group, Inc. With 1700+ employees and growing, Rakuten India is housed in Crimson House Bangalore in the heart of the city.

Role Summary

We are looking for an experienced Release Manager to own and orchestrate the end-to-end software release lifecycle across multi-cloud environments (GCP, Opensource) and a distributed microservices architecture. Operating at the intersection of engineering, operations, and business delivery,



the role ensures that BSS platform releases — spanning billing, charging, customer management, and digital channels — are deployed to production safely, predictably, and with full stakeholder alignment.

You will coordinate releases across engineering, QA, DevOps, and product teams — ensuring quality, stability, and speed of delivery while managing a structured release calendar from scope freeze through post-deployment closure.

Works closely with: Engineering Leads, QA, Security, DBAs, Product, SRE/Ops, and Platform teams.

Key Responsibilities

1. Release Planning & Coordination
- Define and maintain release schedules, release trains, and sprint-to-production pipelines
- Coordinate with product managers, tech leads, and QA to align release scope, timelines, and dependencies
- Manage release calendars across multiple microservices with independent deployment cadences
- Run release readiness reviews, align stakeholde

📌 Release Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Rakuten India
📍 Bengaluru