Senior Backend Engineer, Deployment Environments

GitLab
United Kingdom
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Systems thinking","Collaboration","Pragmatism"]

Help GitLab deploy and validate software more consistently across environments by evolving self-managed cloud-native deployment guidance and reference architectures. Improve production-like ephemeral environments so teams can validate changes earlier with conditions closer to real operations, reducing drift across development, CI, and production. Build tooling and workflows, shape platform contracts and deployment patterns, and collaborate with teams across application, infrastructure, packaging, testing, and delivery guidance.

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GitLab
GitLab
1 month ago

Senior Backend Engineer, Deployment Environments

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Job Summary

Help GitLab deploy and validate software more consistently across environments by evolving self-managed cloud-native deployment guidance and reference architectures. Improve production-like ephemeral environments so teams can validate changes earlier with conditions closer to real operations, reducing drift across development, CI, and production. Build tooling and workflows, shape platform contracts and deployment patterns, and collaborate with teams across application, infrastructure, packaging, testing, and delivery guidance.
Location: United Kingdom
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •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 production-like ephemeral environments to bring validation closer to production reality.
  • •Work across application, infrastructure, and platform boundaries to keep deployment artifacts and environment contracts consistent.
  • •Partner with related teams on packaging, testing, delivery workflows, and customer-facing deployment guidance.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Paid LeaveEquityParental LeaveLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •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.
  • •Systems thinking about service dependencies, deployment patterns, and infrastructure abstraction.
  • •Collaborative, pragmatic approach to building durable platform capabilities.
Experience:Platform engineeringCloud-native operationsDistributed applications
Skills:Systems thinkingCollaborationPragmatism
Languages:English
Tech Stack:Kubernetes

Company Brief

GitLab
Provides a single application for the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, offering source code management, CI/CD, security, and collaboration tools to help teams deliver software faster and more securely.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 250M to 500M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2011
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