Intermediate Backend (Go) Engineer, Gitlab Delivery -Operate

GitLab

8d•Remote

About The Position

GitLab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating human progress. Our platform unites teams and organizations, breaking down barriers and redefining what's possible in software development. Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise and Duo Agent Platform, customers get AI benefits at every stage of the SDLC. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. An overview of this role As a Backend Engineer on the GitLab Delivery Operate team, you’ll focus on delivering and supporting GitLab for self-managed customers by building and maintaining the infrastructure, tooling, and automation that power our deployment methods. You’ll work across Omnibus GitLab, GitLab Helm Charts, the GitLab Environment Toolkit (GET), and the GitLab Operator to ensure GitLab is easy to install, upgrade, and operate in diverse, production-grade environments. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with Distribution Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Release Managers, Security, and Development teams to keep deployments secure, scalable, and reliable, so customers can run GitLab with confidence on their own platforms. Some examples of our projects: Evolving Omnibus, Helm Charts, GET, and the GitLab Operator to support new GitLab features and architectures Improving installation, upgrade, and validation automation for large-scale, self-managed GitLab deployments

Requirements

Experience building and maintaining backend services in production environments, ideally focused on deployment, infrastructure, or platform tooling.
Practical experience running workloads on Kubernetes, including authoring and maintaining Helm charts.
Proficiency with Ruby and Go, along with strong scripting skills to automate workflows and tooling.
Familiarity with Terraform and infrastructure as code practices for managing cloud and on-premises environments.
Hands-on experience working with relational databases, especially PostgreSQL, and understanding of performance and reliability considerations.
Understanding of secure, scalable, and supportable deployment practices and common observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
Experience collaborating in large codebases and with distributed teams, including writing clear, user-facing documentation and implementation guides.
Openness to learning, applying transferable skills, and growing into new technologies and parts of the GitLab deployment stack.

Responsibilities

Maintain and evolve the Omnibus GitLab package so it reliably integrates GitLab components for self-managed deployments.
Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of GitLab Helm Charts to support scalable, production-ready Kubernetes deployments.
Enhance and support the GitLab Environment Toolkit (GET) and validated reference architectures used by enterprise and internal users.
Support and improve the GitLab Operator to enable Kubernetes-native lifecycle management for GitLab installations.
Improve the installation, upgrade, and day‑to‑day operation experience across all supported self-managed platforms.
Collaborate with Security to address vulnerabilities in the deployment stack and ensure secure defaults and configurations.
Build and maintain automation and CI/CD pipelines that validate and test deployment tooling across Omnibus, Charts, GET, and the Operator.
Partner with Distribution Engineers, SREs, Release Managers, and Development teams to integrate new features into deployment methods and keep user-facing documentation accurate and actionable.