# Senior Backend Engineer, Deployment Environments

**Company:** [GitLab](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gitlab)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**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
**Posted:** 2026-08-10

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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