GitLab Backend Engineer Role

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AWS Azure Bash Scripting Engineer Golang Postgresql Prometheus Ruby Terraform

As an Intermediate Backend Engineer on the GitLab Delivery: Operate team, you will play a pivotal role in building, maintaining, and enhancing the infrastructure, automation, and tooling that power GitLab deployments for self-managed customers. This fully remote position offers the opportunity to collaborate across engineering, security, and operations teams to ensure GitLab is easy to deploy, secure, scalable, and reliable in diverse enterprise environments.

Job Overview

Join a team dedicated to empowering self-managed GitLab users by delivering robust deployment tools, seamless integration, and operational excellence. You will work on primary projects such as Omnibus GitLab, Helm Charts, the GitLab Environment Toolkit (GET), and the GitLab Operator, focusing on automation, security, scalability, and user enablement.

Key Responsibilities
  • Build, maintain, and evolve deployment tooling including Omnibus GitLab, Helm Charts, and GET.
  • Advance Kubernetes-native lifecycle automation and operational workflows through the GitLab Operator.
  • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for validating deployment tooling across supported platforms.
  • Collaborate with Security and cross-functional teams to ensure secure, production-grade deployments.
  • Create and update technical documentation to empower users and support independent deployments.
Required Skills & Qualifications
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Helm in production environments.
  • Proficiency in Ruby or Golang (Go), and strong Bash scripting skills.
  • Experience managing infrastructure at scale using orchestration tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef) in multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
  • Solid understanding of PostgreSQL or similar database systems.
  • Knowledge of secure, scalable deployment strategies and practices.
  • Experience contributing to large codebases and distributed engineering teams.
  • Ability to produce clear, actionable technical documentation for end users.
  • Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.

Job Type: Remote

Salary: Not Disclosed

Experience: Entry

Duration: 12 Months

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