Staff Backend Engineer, Gitlab Delivery

🕒 March 22

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GitLab

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise • SaaS

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform, offering tools for automated software delivery, security, and compliance throughout the software development lifecycle. It provides solutions across areas such as AI-assisted development, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), source code management, and vulnerability management. GitLab aims to simplify and accelerate software delivery by uniting development, security, and operations on a unified platform. It is particularly recognized for its AI code assistants and has been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms, making it a preferred choice for many enterprises.

📋 Description

• Guide the technical vision and architecture for GitLab’s cloud-native, self-managed deployments and upgrade workflows. • Establish operational maturity standards, service integration patterns, and deployment models that help development teams manage the lifecycle of their components. • Design and maintain Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts, and upgrade orchestration tooling for self-managed GitLab deployments across varied environments. • Develop automation and integration frameworks for database migrations, rolling deployments, compatibility checks, and rollback paths. • Define database and application lifecycle strategies, including safe PostgreSQL migration approaches and validation mechanisms that reduce downtime risk. • Work with Product Management, GitLab.com Site Reliability Engineering, GitLab Dedicated, and development teams to align deployment patterns with customer needs. • Mentor engineers and enable customer-facing teams through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and runbooks. • Drive observability, testing, performance, and resilience practices for self-managed deployments, and contribute to incident response and post-incident learning.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong software engineering experience designing and delivering production systems that customers install and operate in their own infrastructure. • Proficiency in Go for large, complex codebases, with familiarity with Ruby on Rails and Rails application architecture as a useful addition. • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production, including building and maintaining Operators, designing Helm charts for stateful applications, and working with Custom Resource Definitions, admission controllers, and controller patterns. • Knowledge of cloud-native systems and tooling, such as service mesh, observability stacks, infrastructure as code, and automation tools like Terraform or Ansible. • Experience with stateful workloads and databases, including PostgreSQL schema design and migrations, persistent volumes, storage classes, and approaches for reducing downtime during upgrades. • Understanding of Linux systems and production operations, including package management, systemd, system-level debugging, observability, incident response, and on-call participation. • Ability to guide through influence, including writing clear technical proposals, documenting decisions, mentoring engineers, and working effectively across teams. • Interest in open source infrastructure or deployment tooling, or transferable experience from adjacent domains, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to different audiences.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 • Home office support