Senior Backend Engineer, Cloud Cost & Capacity

Mployee.me; Bengaluru; Remote; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits for health and finances

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Team Member Resource Groups

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build the cloud cost and capacity platform for GitLab.com. You’ll own end-to-end backend services, turn Google Cloud billing data into actionable insights, and shape the architecture and data models for scalable cost allocation.

You’ll set direction for the capability, collaborate with Finance, product teams, and infrastructure engineers, and work asynchronously in a remote environment. Remote roles welcome globally.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and shipping production backend services you own end to end.
• Strong SQL skills with large datasets and data pipelines.
• Working knowledge of Google Cloud and pricing/billing models.
• Proficiency in Go or Python for tooling and pipelines; Ruby used in codebase.

Responsibilities

• Build data pipelines turning Google Cloud billing exports into a clean, queryable picture of usage in BigQuery.
• Attribute cloud costs across GKE clusters to teams and services using OpenCost and cost allocation.
• Develop capacity and demand tooling to support reservation planning and prevent shortages.
• Ship internal apps for engineers and budget owners to view and act on cloud footprint.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Data pipelines

Cloud billing data

Go or Python

Google Cloud

Async communication

Kubernetes

Terraform

OpenCost

Kubecost

Looker

Grafana

BigQuery

GKE

Tools

Terraform

OpenCost

Kubecost

Looker Studio

Grafana

Looker

BigQuery

GKE

Job description

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

• Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.

Senior Backend Engineer

As a Senior Backend Engineer on our Cloud Cost and Capacity capability, you'll build the internal software that helps us understand, attribute, and plan the cloud infrastructure that runs GitLab.com. You'll turn Google Cloud billing and usage data into pipelines, attribution models, and applications that help service owners understand what they consume and spend, plan reservations, and prevent capacity shortages.

You’ll be the first engineer dedicated to this capability, setting the technical direction and building the foundations a growing team will extend. You’ll treat cloud cost and capacity as one roadmap, choosing the architecture, data models, and tools that let service owners manage their usage and spending.

What You'll Do

• Build data pipelines that turn Google Cloud billing exports and Cloud Monitoring telemetry into a clean, queryable picture of fleet usage and utilization in BigQuery.
• Attribute shared cost and usage across Google Kubernetes Engine clusters to the teams and services that drive them, using foundations such as OpenCost and Google Kubernetes Engine cost allocation.
• Develop capacity and demand tooling that profiles infrastructure needs by machine family and region to support reservation planning and prevent capacity shortages.
• Ship internal applications that let engineers and budget owners see and act on their cloud footprint, replacing manual snapshots and spreadsheets with software.
• Establish the data models, services, and engineering standards that future team members will extend, and help shape technical direction and hiring as we grow.
• Partner with Finance, product teams, service owners, and infrastructure engineers to turn their needs into technical designs.
• Use artificial intelligence in your daily engineering workflow to improve efficiency and outcomes, as we expect of all GitLab team members.

What You'll Bring

• A track record of designing and shipping production backend services that you've owned end to end, beyond operating existing systems.
• Strong structured query language (SQL) skills with large datasets, experience building and maintaining data pipelines and models, and comfort working with cloud billing and usage data.
• Working knowledge of a major cloud platform, preferably Google Cloud, including compute services, Kubernetes, and pricing and billing models.
• Proficiency in a general-purpose programming language for tooling and pipelines. We value your ability to build and ship over mastery of a single language; Go and Python suit this work, and we use Ruby across our product code.
• The ability to break a new problem into milestones and drive it to production with light direction, communicating clearly in a remote, asynchronous environment.
• Helpful, not required: OpenCost, Kubecost, or Google Kubernetes Engine cost allocation; cloud financial management (FinOps) practices or certification; cost or capacity modeling, forecasting, or anomaly detection; Terraform; Looker, Looker Studio, or Grafana; founding engineering work; or artificial intelligence in engineering workflows.

About The Team

We’re part of the Cloud Cost Utilization team within Infrastructure Platforms, working with Fleet Management. We partner with Finance, product teams, service owners, and infrastructure engineers as our service-ownership model matures. You’ll work with us asynchronously, using clear written communication to turn our partners’ needs into technical designs.

How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees

• 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

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification.

Country Hiring Guidelines:

GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.

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