Senior Backend (Go) Engineer, Gitlab Delivery -Operate

An overview of this role

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the GitLab 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 options. You’ll work across Omnibus GitLab, GitLab Helm Charts, the GitLab Environment Toolkit (GET), and the GitLab Operator to ensure GitLab is easy to deploy, secure by default, and scalable across diverse environments and major cloud providers. In this role, you’ll act as a bridge between GitLab engineering and self-managed customers, shaping production-grade deployment tooling, improving installation and upgrade experiences, and collaborating with teams like Distribution, SRE, Release, Security, and Development to keep GitLab’s features reliably delivered and operable on supported platforms.

Some examples of our projects:

• Evolving Omnibus GitLab, Helm Charts, GET, and the GitLab Operator to support validated reference architectures for enterprise-scale deployments
• Building automation pipelines and observability into deployment tooling to validate, test, and operate GitLab across Kubernetes and other self-managed environments

What you’ll do

• Maintain and evolve the Omnibus GitLab package and contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of GitLab Helm Charts so they reliably integrate all core components and support scalable, production-ready self-managed deployments.
• Enhance and extend the GitLab Environment Toolkit (GET), validated reference architectures, and the GitLab Operator to provide secure, scalable, Kubernetes-native lifecycle management for GitLab deployments used by enterprise and internal customers.
• Improve installation, upgrade, and day-to-day operations workflows across all supported platforms to ensure a consistent, reliable experience.
• Partner with Security to address vulnerabilities in the deployment stack and deliver secure defaults and configurations.
• Build and maintain automation and CI/CD pipelines that validate and test deployment tools across Omnibus, Charts, GET, and the Operator.
• Collaborate with Distribution Engineers, SREs, Release Managers, and Development teams to integrate new features into deployment methods and keep them reliable.
• Create and maintain clear, user-focused documentation and implementation guides that help self-managed customers deploy and operate GitLab with confidence.
• Provide technical leadership by guiding architectural decisions for deployment tooling, mentoring backend engineers, and contributing to the strategic roadmap for self-managed delivery.

What you’ll bring

• Experience running backend services in production environments, including deploying, monitoring, and operating systems built