Join GitLab as a Senior Backend Engineer to enhance deployment environments and improve cloud-native operations.
Posted by employer 3 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 3 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
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Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Backend Engineer at GitLab, the individual will focus on enhancing deployment environments, making it easier to deploy and validate software across various platforms. Key skills include backend engineering experience, particularly with Kubernetes and cloud-native operations, as well as a strong understanding of deployment architecture. This position is well-suited for experienced engineers who thrive in collaborative settings and are comfortable navigating the intersection of development workflows and production infrastructure. The team is dedicated to improving GitLab's deployment guidance and ephemeral environments, contributing to a high-performance culture.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 3 months ago — first seen on Joblaze July 21, 2026. Last confirmed on GitLab's careers page November 1, 2026.
- Kubernetes appears in 26.9% of 1262 comparable senior backend roles; cloud-native appears in 0.7% of 1262 comparable senior backend roles.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Backend Engineer, Deployment Environments role remote?
- Yes — GitLab lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Kubernetes, cloud-native.
- What seniority level is this role?
- GitLab targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Backend Engineer, Deployment Environments role at GitLab.
From the original posting
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.
An overview of this role
As a Senior Backend Engineer in GitLab’s Platform Enablement organization, you will help make GitLab easier to deploy, validate, and operate across environments. This team is centered on two major areas: Cloud Native deployment guidance and ephemeral environments.
You’ll help shape GitLab’s next generation of self-managed deployment guidance as Reference Architectures evolve toward a model based on deployment patterns, workload characterization, component requirements, topology guidance, and scaling principles.
You’ll also help improve production-like ephemeral environments so teams can validate changes earlier, test against infrastructure and deployment conditions that more closely reflect real-world operation, and reduce drift between development, CI, and production. This includes shaping the tooling, workflows, and platform contracts that make these environments more consistent, more repeatable, and more useful to engineers building and shipping across GitLab’s different deployment models.
Current projects
Deployment Environments is currently focused on:
- Evolving GitLab’s self-managed deployment guidance beyond legacy Reference Architectures into a clear Cloud Native model.
- Improving production-like ephemeral environments for earlier, higher-confidence validation.
- Supporting a platform model where services declare requirements, operators satisfy them, and shared artifacts work across GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed.
What you’ll do
In this role, you’ll:
- Build tooling and workflows for cloud-native and self-managed deployment environments.
- Contribute to Cloud Native deployment guidance, including component requirements, architecture patterns, topology guidance, and scaling principles.
- Improve ephemeral environments that bring validation closer to production reality.
- Work across application, infrastructure, and platform boundaries to keep deployment artifacts and environment contracts consistent from development through production.
- Partner with related teams on packaging, testing, delivery workflows, and customer-facing deployment guidance.
What you’ll bring
- Strong backend engineering experience, ideally with Kubernetes-based systems, distributed applications, or platform engineering
- Experience with deployment architecture, environment management, or cloud-native operations
- Comfort working at the boundary of developer workflows and production infrastructure
- Good systems thinking around service dependencies, deployment patterns, and infrastructure abstraction.
- A collaborative, pragmatic approach to building durable platform capabilities
About the team
The Deployment Environments team helps make GitLab easier to deploy and easier to validate across development, CI, GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed. Its work spans Cloud Native deployment guidance, ephemeral environments, and the platform contracts that reduce drift across the software lifecycle.
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