2 hours ago
Remote, United States or Remote, CanadaSenior
Base Salary
$139k - $235k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate GitLab Orbit backend services primarily in Rust within a distributed, cloud-native environment.
- Improve deployment, monitoring, and operations across GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed deployments using Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and AWS or GCP.
- Automate deployments, upgrades, recovery, capacity management, and service maintenance.
- Strengthen application, data, orchestration, and infrastructure observability through metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts, and service-level indicators.
- Investigate production issues and improve concurrency, failure handling, retries, consistency, idempotency, performance, and multi-tenant isolation.
- Build and improve the graph query engine, SDLC and code indexing pipelines, cloud storage integrations, APIs, and MCP surfaces.
- Design scalable and cost-aware data workflows using S3, ClickHouse, NATS, and Siphon.
- Own technical changes from design through rollout and collaborate with product, data, infrastructure, security, delivery, AI, and SRE teams.
Requirements
- Production backend service engineering experience with strong Rust skills or clear ability to ramp up in a Rust-first, performance-sensitive codebase.
- Experience designing distributed systems involving concurrency, failure handling, consistency, messaging, data partitioning, scalability, and multi-tenant isolation.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, cloud networking, identity and access management, compute, storage, and object storage such as S3.
- Experience deploying and troubleshooting applications on Kubernetes with Helm and making infrastructure changes with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Experience improving backend service reliability, observability, maintainability, and on-call readiness across application, data, orchestration, and infrastructure layers.
- Strong system design, architectural decision-making, documentation, ownership, and autonomous problem-solving skills.
- Ability to learn and apply languages, tools, and frameworks such as Ruby, Go, TypeScript, and Vue.
- Excellent written communication and asynchronous collaboration skills demonstrated through code review, mentoring, incident communication, and context sharing.
Benefits
- US base salary range of $139,200-$235,200, excluding bonuses, equity, and benefits.
- Health, financial, and well-being benefits, flexible paid time off, team member resource groups, equity compensation, and an employee stock purchase plan.
- Growth and Development Fund and parental leave.
- Fully remote work arrangement, subject to location-based eligibility requirements.
Tech Stack
About GitLab
GitLab builds a DevSecOps platform that unifies source code management, CI/CD, and security with AI-assisted workflows for software teams and enterprises. It sells cloud-hosted and self-managed subscriptions, plus enterprise features and support. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, GitLab is a public company listed on NASDAQ and is widely used by large enterprises, including many in the Fortune 100.