Senior Backend Engineer, Platform Readiness

1 month, 2 weeks ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
GitLab

GitLab

GitLab: The comprehensive DevOps platform revolutionizing software development with automation, AI workflows, and essential tools for efficient collaboration.

Internet Software & Services
1K-5K
Founded 2014

Description

  • Build tooling and workflows for cloud-native and self-managed deployment environments.
  • Contribute to Cloud Native deployment guidance, including component requirements, architecture patterns, topology guidance, and scaling principles.
  • Improve production-like ephemeral environments to enable earlier and higher-confidence validation.
  • Work across application, infrastructure, and platform boundaries to keep deployment artifacts and environment contracts consistent from development through production.
  • Partner with related teams on packaging, testing, delivery workflows, and customer-facing deployment guidance.
  • Help shape GitLab’s next generation of self-managed deployment guidance as Reference Architectures evolve.
  • Support a platform model where services declare requirements and operators satisfy them across GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed.

Requirements

  • Strong backend engineering experience, ideally with Kubernetes-based systems, distributed applications, or platform engineering.
  • Experience with deployment architecture, environment management, or cloud-native operations.
  • Comfort working at the boundary of developer workflows and production infrastructure.
  • Good systems thinking around service dependencies, deployment patterns, and infrastructure abstraction.
  • A collaborative and pragmatic approach to building durable platform capabilities.
  • All roles are remote, with possible location-based eligibility requirements depending on the role.
  • Candidates with varying levels of experience are encouraged to apply, even if they do not meet every requirement.

Benefits

  • Flexible Paid Time Off.
  • Equity compensation and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Growth and Development Fund.
  • Parental Leave.
  • Benefits to support health, finances, and well-being.
  • Team Member Resource Groups.
  • Remote work with global hiring in many countries.

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