Senior Backend Go Engineer, GitLab
Gitlab Delivery, Operate
+ Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
One DevOps platform
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One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it so that everyone can contribute. When everyone can contribute, users become contributors and we greatly increase the rate of innovation.
Role
Who you are
- Experience running backend services in production environments, including deploying, monitoring, and operating systems built on Kubernetes and Helm
- Advanced proficiency with Go for building and maintaining observable, resilient services, with an ability to work in Ruby as a plus
- Hands-on practice with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, and managing infrastructure across major cloud providers like GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Practical experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting databases, especially PostgreSQL, in secure and scalable setups
- Understanding of secure, scalable, and supportable deployment practices, including service scaling and rollout strategies
- Familiarity with observability tools and patterns, such as Prometheus and Grafana, to track system health and performance
- Experience collaborating within large codebases and working effectively with distributed, cross-functional teams
- Ability to write clear, user-focused documentation and implementation guides, and openness to applying transferable skills from related backend or infrastructure roles
- Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer on the GitLab 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 options
- You’ll work across Omnibus GitLab, GitLab Helm Charts, the GitLab Environment Toolkit (GET), and the GitLab Operator to ensure GitLab is easy to deploy, secure by default, and scalable across diverse environments and major cloud providers
- In this role, you’ll act as a bridge between GitLab engineering and self-managed customers, shaping production-grade deployment tooling, improving installation and upgrade experiences, and collaborating with teams like Distribution, SRE, Release, Security, and Development to keep GitLab’s features reliably delivered and operable on supported platforms
- Some examples of our projects:
- Evolving Omnibus GitLab, Helm Charts, GET, and the GitLab Operator to support validated reference architectures for enterprise-scale deployments
- Building automation pipelines and observability into deployment tooling to validate, test, and operate GitLab across Kubernetes and other self-managed environments
- Maintain and evolve the Omnibus GitLab package and contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of GitLab Helm Charts so they reliably integrate all core components and support scalable, production-ready self-managed deployments
- Enhance and extend the GitLab Environment Toolkit (GET), validated reference architectures, and the GitLab Operator to provide secure, scalable, Kubernetes-native lifecycle management for GitLab deployments used by enterprise and internal customers
- Improve installation, upgrade, and day-to-day operations workflows across all supported platforms to ensure a consistent, reliable experience
- Partner with Security to address vulnerabilities in the deployment stack and deliver secure defaults and configurations
- Build and maintain automation and CI/CD pipelines that validate and test deployment tools across Omnibus, Charts, GET, and the Operator
- Collaborate with Distribution Engineers, SREs, Release Managers, and Development teams to integrate new features into deployment methods and keep them reliable
- Create and maintain clear, user-focused documentation and implementation guides that help self-managed customers deploy and operate GitLab with confidence
- Provide technical leadership by guiding architectural decisions for deployment tooling, mentoring backend engineers, and contributing to the strategic roadmap for self-managed delivery
- The Operate team sits within GitLab Delivery. We're a globally distributed, all-remote group that works closely with Site Reliability Engineers, Release, Security, and Development across regions in an asynchronous way. We focus on collaboration, iteration, and helping self-managed customers run GitLab successfully in their own environments, from small business to large enterprise
Our take
GitLab is an open-source collaboration platform for developers. It enables teams to build code quickly from anywhere without compromising on security or quality. GitLab already has an estimated 30M+ users from all over the world.
According to a 2021 GitLab report, 60% of developers can release code 2x faster with DevOps platforms that bring teams together and accelerate processes. It stands out by catering to programmers of all experiences. Gitlab's version control system helps streamline the process of creating, maintaining, and deploying code, whoever you are.
GitLab was in the right place to capitalise on the recent trend toward rapid digital transformation and remote working. This trend is expected to grow, and with it, GitLab's popularity. With its successful 2021 IPO and the patronage of major brands such as Nasdaq and Jaguar Land Rover, GitLab is expected to solidify its position as the go-to platform for development teams.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2019
$268m
SERIES E
Dec 2018
$20m
SERIES D
Total funding: $435m
Company benefits
- We offer benefits to manage your health, wealth, and well-being regardless of location
- Flexibility in schedule to be there for life’s important moments
- Equity compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan offered
- Generous Paid Time Off
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sid Sijbrandij
(CEO)Studied Physics at the University of Twente. Interned at P&G and IBM. Was Lead Architect at the Netherlands' Ministry of Justice from 2009 to 2012. Founded app store Comcoaster in 2008, and then co-founded GitLab in 2012.
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