Staff Backend Engineer, Gitlab Delivery: Operate

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.

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