Role overview

Senior Backend Engineer, Deployment Environments

Requirements and responsibilities

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Current projects

  • Evolving GitLab’s self-managed deployment guidance beyond legacy Reference Architectures into a clear Cloud Native model.
  • Improving production-like ephemeral environments for earlier, higher-confidence validation.
  • Supporting a platform model where services declare requirements, operators satisfy them, and shared artifacts work across GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed.

What you’ll do

  • 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 ephemeral environments that bring validation closer to production reality.
  • 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.

What you’ll bring

  • 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, pragmatic approach to building durable platform capabilities

How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees

  • Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Team Member Resource Groups
  • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Growth and Development Fund
  • Parental Leave
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