diff --git a/.github/CODEOWNERS b/.github/CODEOWNERS
index 839a65192f..31495d0649 100644
--- a/.github/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/.github/CODEOWNERS
@@ -5,3 +5,6 @@
 /website/content/api-docs/ @hashicorp/consul-docs
 
 
+# release configuration
+/.release/                              @hashicorp/release-engineering @hashicorp/github-consul-core
+/.github/workflows/build.yml            @hashicorp/release-engineering @hashicorp/github-consul-core