Senior Platform Engineer

🔥 13 hours ago

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $139.2k - $235.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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GitLab

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Consulting • Marketing • Artificial Intelligence

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

• Design, build, and operate GitLab Orbit backend services, primarily in Rust, within a distributed, cloud-native environment • Improve deployment, monitoring, and operations across GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed deployments using Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and AWS or GCP • Automate operational work and build tools for safer deployments, upgrades, recovery, capacity management, and service maintenance • Strengthen observability through metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts, and service-level indicators • Collaborate with SRE teams on incident response, on-call readiness, runbooks, and troubleshooting workflows • Investigate production issues and address underlying causes involving concurrency, partial failures, retries, consistency, idempotency, performance, and multi-tenant isolation • Build and improve the graph query engine, SDLC and code indexing pipelines, cloud storage integrations, API, and MCP surfaces • Design reliable, scalable, and cost-aware data workflows using S3, ClickHouse, NATS, and Siphon • Own changes from technical design through rollout and iteration, documenting constraints and trade-offs • Collaborate asynchronously with product, data, infrastructure, security, delivery, AI, and SRE teams

🎯 Requirements

• Experience designing, building, and operating production backend services with strong Rust skills or clear evidence of ability to ramp up in a Rust-first, performance-sensitive codebase • Experience with distributed-system design, including concurrency, failure handling, consistency, messaging, data partitioning, scalability, and multi-tenant isolation • Hands-on knowledge of AWS, GCP, or both, including cloud networking, identity and access management, compute, storage, and object storage such as Amazon S3 • Experience deploying and troubleshooting applications on Kubernetes with Helm • Experience contributing to repeatable, reviewable infrastructure changes using Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools • Experience improving reliability, observability, maintainability, and on-call readiness of backend services • Experience diagnosing issues across application, data, orchestration, and infrastructure layers • Strong system design skills, including architectural decisions, documenting constraints, and aligning trade-offs • Ability to work autonomously in ambiguous environments by identifying problems, driving solutions, and taking ownership • Ability to learn and apply new languages, tools, and frameworks such as Ruby, Go, or TypeScript and Vue • Excellent written communication and asynchronous collaboration skills • GitLab expects all team members to incorporate AI into their daily workflows

🏖️ 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