Senior Backend Engineer, Deployment Environments

Responsibilities

• ▹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 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

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, pragmatic approach to building durable platform capabilities

Soft skills

What we offer

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

About the company

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, with more than 50 million registered users and trust from more than half of the Fortune 100.