Intermediate Backend (Go) Engineer, Gitlab Delivery -Operate

An overview of this role

As a Backend Engineer on the GitLab Delivery 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 methods. You’ll work across Omnibus GitLab, GitLab Helm Charts, the GitLab Environment Toolkit (GET), and the GitLab Operator to ensure GitLab is easy to install, upgrade, and operate in diverse, production-grade environments. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with Distribution Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Release Managers, Security, and Development teams to keep deployments secure, scalable, and reliable, so customers can run GitLab with confidence on their own platforms.

Some examples of our projects:

• Evolving Omnibus, Helm Charts, GET, and the GitLab Operator to support new GitLab features and architectures
• Improving installation, upgrade, and validation automation for large-scale, self-managed GitLab deployments

What you’ll do

• Maintain and evolve the Omnibus GitLab package so it reliably integrates GitLab components for self-managed deployments.
• Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of GitLab Helm Charts to support scalable, production-ready Kubernetes deployments.
• Enhance and support the GitLab Environment Toolkit (GET) and validated reference architectures used by enterprise and internal users.
• Support and improve the GitLab Operator to enable Kubernetes-native lifecycle management for GitLab installations.
• Improve the installation, upgrade, and day‑to‑day operation experience across all supported self-managed platforms.
• Collaborate with Security to address vulnerabilities in the deployment stack and ensure secure defaults and configurations.
• Build and maintain automation and CI/CD pipelines that validate and test deployment tooling across Omnibus, Charts, GET, and the Operator.
• Partner with Distribution Engineers, SREs, Release Managers, and Development teams to integrate new features into deployment methods and keep user-facing documentation accurate and actionable.

What you’ll bring

• Experience building and maintaining backend services in production environments, ideally focused on deployment, infrastructure, or platform tooling.
• Practical experience running workloads on Kubernetes, including authoring and maintaining Helm charts.
• Proficiency with Ruby and Go, along with strong scripting skills to automate workflows and tooling.
• Familiarity with Terraform and infrastructure as code practices for managing cloud and on-premises environments.
• Hands-on