Senior Backend Engineer, Deployment Environments

Builds backend tooling and workflows for GitLab’s cloud-native, self-managed, and ephemeral deployment environments. The role requires strong backend experience with Kubernetes-based or distributed systems, deployment architecture, and production infrastructure.

About the job

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 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

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

Benefits to support health, finances, and well-being.
Flexible paid time off.
Team member resource groups.
Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan.
Growth and development fund.
Parental leave.

Skills

Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Platform Engineering, Cloud-Native Operations, Deployment Architecture, Environment Management, Ephemeral Environments, Service Dependencies, Infrastructure Abstraction, Continuous Integration, Packaging, Testing, Delivery Workflows