Staff Backend Engineer, Gitlab Delivery: Upgrades

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. 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. *Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.

What you’ll do

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