6 months ago
Remote, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Guide the technical vision and architecture for GitLab’s cloud-native self-managed deployments and upgrade workflows.
- Establish operational maturity standards, service integration patterns, and deployment models for component lifecycle management.
- Design and maintain Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts, and upgrade orchestration tooling.
- Develop automation and integration frameworks for database migrations, rolling deployments, compatibility checks, and rollback paths.
- Define database and application lifecycle strategies, including safe PostgreSQL migrations and validation mechanisms.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Site Reliability Engineering, GitLab Dedicated, and development teams to align deployment patterns with customer needs.
- Mentor engineers and enable customer-facing teams through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and runbooks.
- Drive observability, testing, performance, and resilience practices and contribute to incident response and post-incident learning.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering experience designing and delivering production systems that customers install and operate in their own infrastructure.
- Proficiency in Go; familiarity with Ruby on Rails and Rails application architecture is useful.
- Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes, including Operators, Helm charts for stateful applications, Custom Resource Definitions, admission controllers, and controller patterns.
- Knowledge of cloud-native systems and tooling such as service mesh, observability stacks, infrastructure as code, and automation tools including Terraform or Ansible.
- Experience with stateful workloads and databases, including PostgreSQL schema design and migrations, persistent volumes, storage classes, and downtime-reduction strategies.
- Understanding of Linux systems and production operations, including package management, systemd, system-level debugging, observability, incident response, and on-call participation.
- Ability to guide through influence by writing technical proposals, documenting decisions, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across teams.
- Interest in open source infrastructure or deployment tooling, or transferable experience from adjacent domains, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly.
- Candidates with varying levels of experience are encouraged to apply, even if they do not meet every qualification.
Benefits
- Benefits supporting health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible paid time off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental leave
- Home office support
- Fully remote work arrangement
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.