Senior Backend Engineer — Remote Cloud-Native Deployment

GitLab; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock-P

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Team Member Resource Groups

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Platform Enablement team. You will help make GitLab easier to deploy, validate, and operate across environments, focusing on Cloud Native deployment guidance and episod environments.

You’ll shape next generation self-managed deployment guidance and enhance production-like episod environments to shorten validation cycles, reduce drift, and strengthen deployment contracts across GitLab’s deployment models.

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.
• 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.

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 episod 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

Backend engineering

Kubernetes-based systems

Deployment architecture

Environment management

Cloud-native operations

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Platform Enablement team. You will help make GitLab easier to deploy, validate, and operate across environments, focusing on Cloud Native deployment guidance and episod environments.

You’ll shape next generation self-managed deployment guidance and enhance production-like episod environments to shorten validation cycles, reduce drift, and strengthen deployment contracts across GitLab’s deployment models.