Senior Backend Engineer, Deployment Environments

GitLab

Senior Backend Engineer developing cloud-native and self-managed deployment environments for GitLab. Building consistency in deployment across development and production environments.

Posted 7/21/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building cloud-native deployment environments and improving workflows for consistent application and infrastructure management. Strong background in backend engineering, particularly with Kubernetes and distributed applications, is essential.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Kubernetes-Based SystemsCloud-Native OperationsDeployment ArchitectureEnvironment ManagementSystems Thinking

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Hard Skills

Backend EngineeringDistributed ApplicationsDeployment ArchitectureEnvironment ManagementCloud-Native Operations

Soft Skills

Collaborative ApproachPragmatic Problem Solving

Industry Keywords

Cloud-NativeDeployment WorkflowsInfrastructure AbstractionService DependenciesProduction Infrastructure

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

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