Senior Backend Engineer, Platform Readiness

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organisations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation.

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

Current projects

Deployment Environments is currently focused on:

• 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

In this role, you'll:

• 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 you'll bring

• 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.

How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees

• Benefits to support your 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.