From the listing
About the role
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, and reduce security risk. We embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier and foster a high-performance culture driven by continuous knowledge exchange.
As a Senior Backend Engineer in the Platform Enablement organization, you will help make GitLab easier to deploy, validate, and operate across environments. The team focuses on Cloud Native deployment guidance and building production-like ephemeral environments to reduce drift between development and production.
You will shape the next generation of self-managed deployment guidance and improve tooling, workflows, and platform contracts to make environments more consistent and repeatable for engineers building across GitLab’s different deployment models.
What you'll do
- Build tooling and workflows for cloud-native and self-managed deployment environments.
- Contribute to Cloud Native deployment guidance, including component requirements, architecture patterns, and scaling principles.
- Improve ephemeral environments to bring validation closer to production reality.
- Work across application, infrastructure, and platform boundaries to keep deployment artifacts consistent.
- Partner with related teams on packaging, testing, delivery workflows, and customer-facing deployment guidance.
- Support a platform model where shared artifacts work across GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed.
What they're looking for
- Strong backend engineering experience, ideally with Kubernetes-based systems or distributed applications.
- Experience with deployment architecture, environment management, or cloud-native operations.
- Comfort working at the boundary of developer workflows and production infrastructure.
- Good systems thinking regarding service dependencies and infrastructure abstraction.
- A collaborative, pragmatic approach to building durable platform capabilities.
From the company page
Gitlab benefits
◉ Remote policy · in their words
“We've scaled as an asynchronous, no-office company that's consistently recognized as a great place to work.”
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The hot takeJeff's read on Gitlab
GitLab has put more effort into their employee marketing and policies than 99.99% of the companies we've researched over the years. Seriously, their handbook is absolutely massive.
The ONLY thing that throws me off about them is an unclear statement about their stance on what "work from anywhere" actually means. They say:
"All-remote means that each individual in an organization is empowered to work and live where they are most fulfilled."
But they also say that hey need to have an entity in your home country in order to be hired, so I'd love to know if they have a list of the countries they will hire from.