Senior Backend Engineer - Remote, Cloud-Native Platform

GitLab Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, finances, and well-being benefi

Flexible Paid Time Off

Team Member Resource Groups

Equity Compensation & Employee Stockd

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

GitLab Inc. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help make deployments easier to validate across development, CI, and production environments. You’ll contribute to self-managed deployment guidance and a cloud-native model that scales with our platform.

You’ll build tooling, define architecture patterns, and work across product and infrastructure teams to ensure consistent environment contracts from development to production, enabling faster delivery of secure software.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering experience with Kubernetes-based systems or platform engineering.
• Experience with deployment architecture and environment management.
• Comfort at the boundary of developer workflows and production infrastructure.
• Good systems thinking about service dependencies and deployment patterns.
• 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 episodial 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

Distributed applications

Platform engineering

Cloud-native operations

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

GitLab Inc. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help make deployments easier to validate across development, CI, and production environments. You’ll contribute to self-managed deployment guidance and a cloud-native model that scales with our platform.

You’ll build tooling, define architecture patterns, and work across product and infrastructure teams to ensure consistent environment contracts from development to production, enabling faster delivery of secure software.