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
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