Staff Backend Engineer, Gitlab Delivery: Upgrades

Навыки

• Ansible
• Отладка и поиск ошибок
• DevSecOps
• Форензика и реагирование
• Helm
• Istio / service mesh
• Kubernetes

О компании и продукте

• As a Staff Engineer on the GitLab Delivery - Upgrades team, you’ll guide the technical direction for GitLab’s self-managed deployment strategy so customers can deploy, upgrade, and run GitLab reliably in their own infrastructure with minimal disruption. You’ll serve as a technical anchor for the team, working closely with your engineering manager, product manager, and partners across Site Reliability Engineering, Release, Security, and Development to shape cloud-native, operator-driven deployment patterns that reduce operational complexity and upgrade friction. In your first year, you’ll help define the architecture for zero-downtime upgrades, strengthen observability and reliability practices, and guide the next generation of deployment automation for self-managed GitLab environments.
• Some examples of our projects:
• Evolving GitLab Operator and Helm charts to support zero-downtime upgrades for complex, stateful GitLab installations
• Advancing the GitLab Environment Toolkit to simplify large-scale, production-ready self-managed deployments

Задачи

• Guide the technical vision and architecture for GitLab’s cloud-native, self-managed deployments and upgrade workflows
• Establish operational maturity standards, service integration patterns, and deployment models that help development teams manage the lifecycle of their components
• Design and maintain Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts, and upgrade orchestration tooling for self-managed GitLab deployments across varied environments
• Develop automation and integration frameworks for database migrations, rolling deployments, compatibility checks, and rollback paths
• Define database and application lifecycle strategies, including safe PostgreSQL migration approaches and validation mechanisms that reduce downtime risk
• Work with Product Management, GitLab.com Site Reliability Engineering, GitLab Dedicated, and development teams to align deployment patterns with customer needs
• Mentor engineers and enable customer-facing teams through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and runbooks
• Drive observability, testing, performance, and resilience practices for self-managed deployments, and contribute to incident response and post-incident learning

Требования

• Strong software engineering experience designing and delivering production systems that customers install and operate in their own infrastructure
• Proficiency in Go for large, complex codebases, with familiarity with Ruby on Rails and Rails application architecture as a useful addition
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production , including building and maintaining Operators, designing Helm charts for stateful applications, and working with Custom Resource Definitions, admission controllers, and controller patterns
• Knowledge of cloud-native systems and tooling , such as service mesh, observability stacks, infrastructure as code, and automation tools like Terraform or Ansible
• Experience with stateful workloads and databases , including PostgreSQL schema design and migrations, persistent volumes, storage classes, and approaches for reducing downtime during upgrades
• Understanding of Linux systems and production operations , including package management, systemd, system-level debugging, observability, incident response, and on-call participation
• Ability to guide through influence , including writing clear technical proposals, documenting decisions, mentoring engineers, and working effectively across teams
• Interest in open source infrastructure or deployment tooling , or transferable experience from adjacent domains, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to different audiences

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