Staff Backend Engineer, Gitlab Delivery
GitLab
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: India
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About the role
- Guide the technical vision and architecture for GitLab’s cloud-native, self-managed deployments and upgrade workflows.
- Establish operational maturity standards, service integration patterns, and deployment models that help development teams manage the lifecycle of their components.
- Design and maintain Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts, and upgrade orchestration tooling for self-managed GitLab deployments across varied environments.
- Develop automation and integration frameworks for database migrations, rolling deployments, compatibility checks, and rollback paths.
- Define database and application lifecycle strategies, including safe PostgreSQL migration approaches and validation mechanisms that reduce downtime risk.
- Work with Product Management, GitLab.com Site Reliability Engineering, GitLab Dedicated, and development teams to align deployment patterns with customer needs.
- Mentor engineers and enable customer-facing teams through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and runbooks.
- Drive observability, testing, performance, and resilience practices for self-managed deployments, and contribute to incident response and post-incident learning.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering experience designing and delivering production systems that customers install and operate in their own infrastructure.
- Proficiency in Go for large, complex codebases, with familiarity with Ruby on Rails and Rails application architecture as a useful addition.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production, including building and maintaining Operators, designing Helm charts for stateful applications, and working with Custom Resource Definitions, admission controllers, and controller patterns.
- Knowledge of cloud-native systems and tooling, such as service mesh, observability stacks, infrastructure as code, and automation tools like Terraform or Ansible.
- Experience with stateful workloads and databases, including PostgreSQL schema design and migrations, persistent volumes, storage classes, and approaches for reducing downtime during upgrades.
- Understanding of Linux systems and production operations, including package management, systemd, system-level debugging, observability, incident response, and on-call participation.
- Ability to guide through influence, including writing clear technical proposals, documenting decisions, mentoring engineers, and working effectively across teams.
- Interest in open source infrastructure or deployment tooling, or transferable experience from adjacent domains, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to different audiences.
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
- Home office support
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Hard Skills & Tools
GoRuby on RailsKubernetesHelm chartsPostgreSQLTerraformAnsibleLinux systemsobservabilityautomation frameworks
Soft Skills
mentoringtechnical proposalsdocumentationinfluencecross-team collaborationdesign reviewscode reviewsincident responsepost-incident learningcommunication