Senior backend engineer building scalable services for Ground News, a platform comparing news sources and media bias. Owning backend features, reliability, and safe production rollouts.
About the role
- Backend Engineer focused on maintaining the GitLab infrastructure and supporting self-managed deployments. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable installations.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and evolve the Omnibus GitLab package so it reliably integrates GitLab components for self-managed deployments.
- Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of GitLab Helm Charts to support scalable, production-ready Kubernetes deployments.
- Enhance and support the GitLab Environment Toolkit (GET) and validated reference architectures used by enterprise and internal users.
- Support and improve the GitLab Operator to enable Kubernetes-native lifecycle management for GitLab installations.
- Improve the installation, upgrade, and day‑to‑day operation experience across all supported self-managed platforms.
- Collaborate with Security to address vulnerabilities in the deployment stack and ensure secure defaults and configurations.
- Build and maintain automation and CI/CD pipelines that validate and test deployment tooling across Omnibus, Charts, GET, and the Operator.
- Partner with Distribution Engineers, SREs, Release Managers, and Development teams to integrate new features into deployment methods and keep user-facing documentation accurate and actionable.
Requirements
- Experience building and maintaining backend services in production environments, ideally focused on deployment, infrastructure, or platform tooling.
- Practical experience running workloads on Kubernetes, including authoring and maintaining Helm charts.
- Proficiency with Ruby and Go, along with strong scripting skills to automate workflows and tooling.
- Familiarity with Terraform and infrastructure as code practices for managing cloud and on-premises environments.
- Hands-on experience working with relational databases, especially PostgreSQL, and understanding of performance and reliability considerations.
- Understanding of secure, scalable, and supportable deployment practices and common observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
- Experience collaborating in large codebases and with distributed teams, including writing clear, user-facing documentation and implementation guides.
- Openness to learning, applying transferable skills, and growing into new technologies and parts of the GitLab deployment stack.
Benefits
- 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
- Home office support
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