Intermediate Backend Engineer, Gitlab Delivery

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Backend Engineer on GitLab's Operate team, developing tools for self-managed customers. Collaborating on deployment and scalability improvements for GitLab software.

Responsibilities:

Maintain and improve the Omnibus GitLab package so GitLab components work reliably in self-managed deployments.
Develop and support GitLab Helm Charts for scalable, production-ready Kubernetes deployments.
Enhance the GitLab Environment Toolkit (GET) and validated reference architectures used by enterprise and internal users.
Support and extend the GitLab Operator for Kubernetes-native lifecycle management of GitLab installations.
Improve the installation, upgrade, and day-to-day operating experience across supported self-managed platforms.
Collaborate with Security to address vulnerabilities and strengthen secure defaults and configurations across the deployment stack.
Build and maintain automation and continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines that validate deployment tooling across Omnibus, Charts, GET, and the Operator.
Partner with Distribution Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Release Managers, and Development teams to integrate new features and keep user-facing documentation accurate and useful.

Requirements:

Experience building and maintaining backend services in production environments, especially in deployment, infrastructure, or platform tooling.
Practical knowledge of Kubernetes operations, including authoring and maintaining Helm charts.
Proficiency with Go for building and maintaining observable, resilient services, with an ability to work in Ruby as a plus.
Familiarity with Terraform and infrastructure as code practices across cloud and on-premises environments.
Hands-on experience with relational databases, especially PostgreSQL, including performance and reliability considerations.
Understanding of secure, scalable, and supportable deployment practices, along with observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
Experience collaborating in large codebases and distributed teams, including writing clear user-facing documentation and implementation guides.
Openness to learning new technologies and applying transferable skills across different parts of the GitLab deployment stack.