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 experience working with relational databases especially PostgreSQL and understanding of performance and reliability considerations.

• Understanding of secure scalable and supportable deployment practices and common observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.

• Experience collaborating in large codebases and with distributed teams including writing clear user-facing documentation and implementation guides.

• Openness to learning applying transferable skills and growing into new technologies and parts of the GitLab deployment stack.

About the team

The Operate team is part of GitLab Delivery and is responsible for delivering GitLab to self-managed users through supported and validated deployment tooling. We maintain and evolve the GitLab Omnibus package Helm Charts GitLab Operator and GitLab Environment Toolkit (GET) to ensure GitLab is deployable secure and production-ready across diverse environments. You’ll work with a distributed group of backend engineers who collaborate asynchronously across time zones and partner closely with Site Reliability Engineering Release Security and Development teams to keep deployments reliable and aligned with new product capabilities. We are focused on improving installation and upgrade experiences strengthening security and automation and enabling self-managed customers to run GitLab with confidence at any scale.