Senior Backend Engineer, Deployment Environments
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Job description
A Senior Backend Engineer role in GitLab's Platform Enablement organization, focused on Cloud Native deployment guidance and production-like ephemeral environments. The engineer builds tooling and workflows that make GitLab easier to deploy, validate, and operate across environments.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- 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.
What we're looking for
- 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
Your team
Deployment Environments team
Helps make GitLab easier to deploy and easier to validate across development, CI, GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed. Its work spans Cloud Native deployment guidance, ephemeral environments, and the platform contracts that reduce drift across the software lifecycle.
Benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
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About GitLab
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Key facts
- DevSecOps software
- More than 50 million registered users
- More than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab
- All roles are remote
- GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world