Senior Backend Engineer, Deployment Environments

Role Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer in GitLab’s Platform Enablement organization, you will help make GitLab easier to deploy, validate, and operate across environments. This team is centered on two major areas: Cloud Native deployment guidance and ephemeral environments.

• Help shape GitLab’s next generation of self-managed deployment guidance as Reference Architectures evolve toward a model based on deployment patterns, workload characterization, component requirements, topology guidance, and scaling principles.
• Improve production-like ephemeral environments so teams can validate changes earlier, test against infrastructure and deployment conditions that more closely reflect real-world operation, and reduce drift between development, CI, and production.
• Shape the tooling, workflows, and platform contracts that make these environments more consistent, more repeatable, and more useful to engineers building and shipping across GitLab’s different deployment models.

Current projects

• Evolving GitLab’s self-managed deployment guidance beyond legacy Reference Architectures into a clear Cloud Native model.
• Improving production-like ephemeral environments for earlier, higher-confidence validation.
• Supporting a platform model where services declare requirements, operators satisfy them, and shared artifacts work across GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed.

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.

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.

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off.
• Team Member Resource Groups.
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Growth and Development Fund.
• Parental Leave.