Staff Backend Engineer, Gitlab Delivery: Operate - Gitlab - Remote - Global
Backend Engineer
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Job Description
As a Staff Engineer on the GitLab Delivery - Operate team, you’ll guide the technical direction for GitLab’s self-managed deployment strategy so customers can deploy, upgrade, and run GitLab reliably in their own infrastructure with minimal disruption. You’ll serve as a technical anchor for the team, working closely with your engineering manager, product manager, and partners across Site Reliability Engineering, Release, Security, and Development to shape cloud-native, operator-driven deployment patterns that reduce operational complexity and upgrade friction. In your first year, you’ll help define the architecture for zero-downtime upgrades, strengthen observability and reliability practices, and guide the next generation of deployment automation for self-managed GitLab environments. Some examples of our projects include evolving GitLab Operator and Helm charts to support zero-downtime upgrades for complex, stateful GitLab installations and advancing the GitLab Environment Toolkit to simplify large-scale, production-ready self-managed deployments. You’ll guide the technical vision and architecture for GitLab’s cloud-native, self-managed deployments and upgrade workflows, establish operational maturity standards, design and maintain Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts, and upgrade orchestration tooling, develop automation frameworks, define database and application lifecycle strategies, and work with teams to align deployment patterns with customer needs. You’ll mentor engineers, drive observability, testing, performance, and resilience practices, and contribute to incident response and post-incident learning.
Company Information
| Location | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Remote - Global | 161 |
| Remote - North America | 14 |
| Remote | 9 |
| Remote - EMEA | 5 |
| Remote - United States | 3 |
| Remote - Canada | 3 |
| Remote - Europe | 1 |
| Role type | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Backend Engineer | 23 |
| Solutions Architect | 9 |
| Product Manager | 8 |
| Software Engineer | 7 |
| Commercial Account Executive | 6 |
| Customer Success Manager | 5 |
| Human Resources Specialist | 5 |
| Sales Representative | 5 |
| New Business Account Executive | 4 |
| Engineering Manager | 4 |
| Program Manager | 4 |
| Customer Success Engineer | 4 |
| Account Executive | 4 |
| Regional Marketing Manager | 3 |
| Strategic Account Executive | 3 |
| Data Analyst | 3 |
| Regional Sales Director | 3 |
| Field CTO | 2 |
| Business Development Representative | 2 |
| Customer Experience Services Manager | 2 |
| Engagement Manager | 2 |
| Data Scientist | 2 |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 2 |
| Manager | 2 |
| Candidate Experience Specialist | 2 |
| Senior Manager | 2 |
| AI Engineer | 2 |
| Sales Development Representative | 1 |
| Software Engineering Manager | 1 |
| Security Architect | 1 |
| Public Sector Strategic Account Executive | 1 |
| Backend Developer | 1 |
| Infrastructure Security Manager | 1 |
| Business Development Executive | 1 |
| Infrastructure Security Engineer | 1 |
| Security Engineer | 1 |
| Enterprise Applications Engineer | 1 |
| Legal | 1 |
| Engineer | 1 |
| Ecosystem Sales Manager | 1 |
| Senior UX Researcher | 1 |
| Technical Writing Director | 1 |
| Procurement Analyst | 1 |
| Executive Assistant | 1 |
| Enablement Lead | 1 |
| Corporate Development Analyst | 1 |
| Sales Development | 1 |
| Vice President, Data & Insights | 1 |
| Renewals Director | 1 |
| Solutions Architect Manager | 1 |
| Software Security Engineer | 1 |
| Product Security Architecture Director | 1 |
| Stock Administrator | 1 |
| Support Manager | 1 |
| Financial Analyst | 1 |
| Sales Manager | 1 |
| Database Engineer | 1 |
| G&A Engineer | 1 |
| Legal Engineer | 1 |
| Technical Program Manager | 1 |
| Contract Manager | 1 |
| Architect | 1 |
| Accounts Receivable Analyst | 1 |
| Customer Relationship Manager | 1 |
| Product Marketing Manager | 1 |
| Infrastructure Platforms Engineer | 1 |
| Data System Architect | 1 |
| Vulnerability Researcher | 1 |
| CPQ Developer | 1 |
| Executive Business Partner | 1 |
| Customer Success Architect | 1 |
| Security Risk Management Engineer | 1 |
| Commercial Legal Counsel | 1 |
| Data Architect | 1 |
| Project Manager | 1 |
| Professional Services Engineer | 1 |
| Program manager | 1 |
| Senior Recruiter | 1 |
| Public Sector Solutions Architect | 1 |
| Pricing Director | 1 |
| Product Design Manager | 1 |
| Director | 1 |
| Researcher | 1 |
| Senior Engineering Manager | 1 |
| Vice President of Engineering | 1 |
| Application Security Manager | 1 |
| Vice President, Legal Commercial | 1 |
| People Operations Partner | 1 |
| Field Strategist | 1 |
| Product Management Specialist | 1 |
| Senior FP&A Analyst | 1 |
| Vice President | 1 |
| Corporate Security Engineer | 1 |
| Customer Service Representative | 1 |
| HRIS Analyst | 1 |
| Principal Engineer | 1 |
| Major Account Executive | 1 |
| Role level | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Mid-Level | 141 |
| Manager | 8 |
| Senior | 8 |
Gitlab appears in 196 indexed job postings in JobCrawls' Finland dataset since October 2023. In that historical index, the strongest location signals for this employer are Remote - Global, Remote - North America, and Remote.
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Job Details
Requirements
- Strong software engineering experience designing and delivering production systems that customers install and operate in their own infrastructure.
- Proficiency in Go for large, complex codebases, with familiarity with Ruby on Rails and Rails application architecture as a useful addition.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production, including building and maintaining Operators, designing Helm charts for stateful applications, and working with Custom Resource Definitions, admission controllers, and controller patterns.
- Knowledge of cloud-native systems and tooling, such as service mesh, observability stacks, infrastructure as code, and automation tools like Terraform or Ansible.
- Experience with stateful workloads and databases, including PostgreSQL schema design and migrations, persistent volumes, storage classes, and approaches for reducing downtime during upgrades.
- Understanding of Linux systems and production operations, including package management, systemd, system-level debugging, observability, incident response, and on-call participation.
- Ability to guide through influence, including writing clear technical proposals, documenting decisions, mentoring engineers, and working effectively across teams.
- Interest in open source infrastructure or deployment tooling, or transferable experience from adjacent domains, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to different audiences.
