Senior Backend Engineer, Deployment Environments

Overview

As a Senior Backend Engineer in GitLab’s Platform Enablement team, you will advance deployment guidance and ephemeral environments to make GitLab easier to deploy, validate, and operate. You’ll shape next-generation self-managed deployment patterns and ensure consistency across multiple deployment models. You’ll build tooling for cloud-native and self-managed environments, collaborating across teams to reduce drift and bring validation closer to production. This is a hands-on role at scale, focused on enabling reliable, repeatable deployments and real-world testing across environments.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave
• Team Member Resource Groups

Responsibilities

• Build tooling and workflows for cloud-native and self-managed deployment environments
• Contribute to Cloud Native deployment guidance (component requirements, architecture patterns, topology guidance, scaling principles)
• Improve ephemeral environments for earlier, higher-confidence validation
• Coordinate across application, infrastructure, and platform boundaries to keep deployment artifacts and environment contracts consistent
• Partner with teams on packaging, testing, and delivery workflows, and customer-facing deployment guidance

Key requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience
• Experience with Kubernetes-based systems, distributed applications, or platform engineering
• Experience with deployment architecture, environment management, or cloud-native operations
• Comfort at the boundary of developer workflows and production infrastructure
• Good systems thinking around service dependencies, deployment patterns, and infrastructure abstraction
• Collaborative, pragmatic approach to building durable platform capabilities

• collaborative
• pragmatic
• systems thinking
• Kubernetes-based systems
• cloud-native deployment
• ephemeral environments

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