Senior Platform Engineer, GitLab Orbit
Core
Build and scale GitLab Orbit, a high-impact knowledge graph data service supporting agents, analytics, and architecture-level features across GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed deployments.
Role type
Senior Platform Engineer (Rust-first, distributed systems)
Builds
GitLab Orbit backend services, graph query engine, indexing pipelines, and cloud storage integrations
Domain
Cloud-native distributed systems, knowledge graphs, DevSecOps platform
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Rust, distributed system design, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/GCP, observability, system design
Preferred skills
ClickHouse, NATS, MCP, Ruby, Go, TypeScript, Vue
Technologies
Rust, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, AWS, GCP, ClickHouse, NATS, S3, MCP
Responsibilities
Design and operate backend services in a distributed cloud-native environment; improve deployment, monitoring, and operations across multiple deployment types; automate operational work and build tools for safer deployments; strengthen observability across application, data, and infrastructure layers; investigate production issues and handle concurrency, failures, and multi-tenant isolation; build and improve graph query engines and data workflows.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC