Senior Backend Engineer, Platform Readiness
RemoteCanada
Job Summary
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 while working across application, infrastructure, and platform boundaries to keep deployment artifacts consistent from development through production. Partner with related teams on packaging, testing, delivery workflows, and customer-facing deployment guidance. This role sits within GitLab's Platform Enablement organization, focusing on reducing drift across the software lifecycle for teams shipping on GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed.
Required Qualifications
- Strong backend engineering experience
- Experience with Kubernetes-based systems
- Experience with distributed applications
- Experience with platform engineering
- Experience with deployment architecture
- Experience with environment management
- Experience with cloud-native operations
- Comfort working at the boundary of developer workflows and production infrastructure
- Good systems thinking around service dependencies
- Good systems thinking around deployment patterns
- Good systems thinking around infrastructure abstraction
Desired Qualifications
- Ideally with Kubernetes-based systems
- Ideally with distributed applications
- Ideally with platform engineering
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