# Senior Backend Engineer, Platform Readiness

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

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## Description

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.

## Skills

### Required
- Kubernetes
- backend engineering
- deployment architecture
- cloud-native operations
- platform engineering

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