Senior Platform Engineer, GitLab Orbit

GitLab
Canada, United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 139,200 - 235,200 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["System design","Autonomous ownership","Written communication","Asynchronous collaboration","Mentoring"]

Build and scale GitLab Orbit, a knowledge graph data service used by agents, analytics, and architecture-level features across GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed deployments. Own backend services and data workflows primarily in Rust, improving multi-tenant performance, resilience, and operational readiness. Drive observability and incident readiness, automate deployments and recovery, and develop core components like the graph query engine, indexing pipelines, cloud storage integrations, and API/MCP surfaces.

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GitLab
GitLab
18 hours ago

Senior Platform Engineer, GitLab Orbit

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Job Summary

Build and scale GitLab Orbit, a knowledge graph data service used by agents, analytics, and architecture-level features across GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed deployments. Own backend services and data workflows primarily in Rust, improving multi-tenant performance, resilience, and operational readiness. Drive observability and incident readiness, automate deployments and recovery, and develop core components like the graph query engine, indexing pipelines, cloud storage integrations, and API/MCP surfaces.
Location: Canada, United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and operate GitLab Orbit backend services primarily in Rust within a distributed, cloud-native environment.
  • •Improve deployment, monitoring, and operations across GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed using Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and AWS/GCP services.
  • •Automate recurring operational work and build tools to make deployments, upgrades, recovery, capacity management, and maintenance safer and more efficient.
  • •Strengthen observability across application, data, orchestration, and infrastructure layers by improving metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts, and SLI/incident response workflows.
  • •Invest ige production issues and implement backend code for concurrency, partial failures, retries, consistency, idempotency, performance, and multi-tenant isolation.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 139,200 - 235,200 annually
Perks:Paid LeaveParental LeaveEquityLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •Experience designing, building, and operating production backend services with strong Rust skills (or proven ability to ramp up in a Rust-first codebase).
  • •Experience with distributed-system design, including concurrency, failure handling, consistency, messaging, scalability, and multi-tenant isolation.
  • •Hands-on knowledge of AWS and/or GCP, including cloud networking, IAM, compute, storage, and S3 object storage.
  • •Experience deploying and troubleshooting on Kubernetes with Helm, and contributing to infrastructure changes using Terraform (or similar IaC tools).
  • •Strong system design skills and demonstrated reliability/observability improvements, including debugging across application, data, orchestration, and infrastructure layers.
Experience:DevSecOpsCloud-nativeDistributed systemsData engineering
Skills:System designAutonomous ownershipWritten communicationAsynchronous collaborationMentoring
Languages:English
Tech Stack:RustKubernetesHelmTerraformAmazon Web ServicesAWSGoogle Cloud PlatformGCPAmazon Simple Storage Service (S3)ClickHouseNATSSiphonAPIModel Context Protocol (MCP)SDLCRubyGoTypeScriptVue

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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