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The role
GitLab is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer for its Developer Experience group, which serves six globally distributed teams. The role finds and removes friction in engineering workflows, with Kubernetes-based developer platform work in Go and Ruby. GitLab roles are remote, with some location limits.
What you will do
- Split time between hands-on coding in Ruby and Go and designing scalable solutions
- Build platform capabilities that help teams deploy and operate services on Kubernetes
- Define reusable service templates, deployment workflows and operational guardrails
- Build development, CI and test environments that mirror production Kubernetes behavior
- Make environment bring-up and teardown deterministic and reproducible
- Partner with infrastructure and service teams on rollout safety and observability
What they ask for
- Deep experience building developer tooling, DevEx platforms, testing frameworks or CI/CD systems at scale
- Strong hands-on Go for production services, CLI tools or platform tooling
- Practical Kubernetes experience running production workloads
- Helm-based release management and multi-cluster context handling
- Experience integrating third-party operators such as CloudNativePG and cert-manager
- Ruby experience is valuable
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on GitLab's careers page behind the apply button.
