Senior Backend Engineer - Cloud-Native Deployments (Remote)

Devconnectplatform; Canada; Remote; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for Deployment Environments to help make GitLab easier to deploy and validate across development, CI, GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed. You will work on cloud-native deployment guidance and ephemeral environments, shaping infrastructure contracts.

You’ll build tooling, define patterns for deployment, and collaborate across teams to ensure production-like environments reflect real workloads.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering experience, ideally with Kubernetes-based systems, distributed applications, or platform engineering.
• Experience with deployment architecture, environment management, or cloud-native operations.

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 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.

Skills

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Platform engineering

Backend development

Cloud-native

Tools

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for Deployment Environments to help make GitLab easier to deploy and validate across development, CI, GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed. You will work on cloud-native deployment guidance and ephemeral environments, shaping infrastructure contracts.

You’ll build tooling, define patterns for deployment, and collaborate across teams to ensure production-like environments reflect real workloads.