Senior Backend Engineer, Deployment Environments
Core
Build tooling and workflows for cloud-native and self-managed deployment environments, evolving deployment guidance from legacy Reference Architectures to a Cloud Native model, and improving production-like ephemeral environments for earlier validation.
Role type
Senior IC backend engineer (platform engineering)
Builds
Cloud Native deployment guidance, ephemeral environments, and platform contracts for GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed
Domain
Cloud Native / Platform Engineering / DevSecOps
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Kubernetes, distributed applications, deployment architecture, environment management, cloud-native operations, systems thinking, service dependencies, infrastructure abstraction
Preferred skills
Platform engineering, packaging, testing, delivery workflows
Technologies
Kubernetes
Responsibilities
Build tooling and workflows for cloud-native and self-managed deployment environments; Contribute to Cloud Native deployment guidance including component requirements and scaling principles; Improve ephemeral environments to bring validation closer to production reality; Work across application, infrastructure, and platform boundaries to keep deployment artifacts consistent; Partner with related teams on packaging, testing, and delivery workflows