Senior Backend Engineer, Gitlab Delivery: Zero Downtime Upgrades

Overview

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the GitLab Upgrades team, you’ll help self‑managed customers run GitLab reliably by building and maintaining the infrastructure, tooling, and automation behind our deployment options. You’ll work across Omnibus GitLab, GitLab Helm Charts, the GitLab Environment Toolkit (Get), and the GitLab Operator to make GitLab easier to deploy, more secure by default, and scalable across major cloud providers and a wide range of customer environments.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and evolve the Omnibus GitLab package to support reliable, production‑ready self‑managed deployments, improving deployment stability, increasing upgrade success rates, and reducing escalation rates.
• Develop and improve GitLab Helm Charts so core components integrate cleanly and scale across supported environments, reducing deployment friction, shortening time to deploy, and improving operational consistency at scale.
• Enhance the Git...