# Senior Backend Engineer, Gitlab Delivery: Zero Downtime Upgrades

**Company**: GitLab
**Location**: Remote, India
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the GitLab Upgrades team, focusing on self-managed customers and zero downtime upgrades.

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the GitLab Upgrades team, you'll help self-managed customers run GitLab reliably by building and maintaining the infrastructure, tooling, and automation behind our deployment options.

Responsibilities:

- Maintain and evolve the Omnibus GitLab package to support reliable, production-ready self-managed deployments.

- Develop and improve GitLab Helm Charts for clean integration and scalability across environments.

- Enhance the GitLab Environment Toolkit (Get) and the GitLab Operator for secure, Kubernetes-native lifecycle management.

- Improve installation, upgrade, and operational workflows for self-managed customers.

- Partner with Security to address vulnerabilities and deliver secure defaults.

- Build and maintain automation and CI/CD pipelines for validation and testing.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate new features and keep deployments reliable.

- Guide architectural direction and mentor backend engineers.

Requirements:

- Experience operating backend services in production, including deployment and maintenance in Kubernetes- and Helm-based environments.

- Proficiency in Go and working knowledge of Ruby.

- Hands-on practice with infrastructure as code and managing infrastructure across cloud providers.

- Knowledge of database design, operations, and troubleshooting, especially for PostgreSQL.

- Familiarity with observability tools and patterns.

- Ability to work effectively in large codebases and coordinate across distributed teams.

Benefits:

- Benefits to support 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Ruby
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Terraform
- PostgreSQL
- Prometheus
- Grafana

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