Senior Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Develop, construct, and manage GitLab Orbit backend services, primarily utilizing Rust, within a cloud-native, distributed environment.

• Enhance deployment, monitoring, and operational processes across GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed environments using technologies like Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and either AWS or GCP.

• Automate operational tasks and create tools for safer deployments, upgrades, recovery, capacity management, and service maintenance.

• Enhance observability through metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts, and service-level indicators.

• Work in collaboration with SRE teams on incident response, on-call preparedness, runbooks, and troubleshooting workflows.

• Investigate production issues and address root causes related to concurrency, partial failures, retries, consistency, idempotency, performance, and multi-tenant isolation.

• Develop and optimize the graph query engine, SDLC and code indexing pipelines, cloud storage integrations, APIs, and MCP interfaces.

• Design dependable, scalable, and cost-effective data workflows utilizing S3, ClickHouse, NATS, and Siphon.

• Take ownership of changes from technical design through implementation and iteration, documenting constraints and trade-offs.

• Collaborate asynchronously with product, data, infrastructure, security, delivery, AI, and SRE teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in designing, building, and operating production backend services with strong Rust expertise or demonstrable ability to adapt to a Rust-first, performance-sensitive codebase.

• Background in distributed-system design, encompassing concurrency, failure management, consistency, messaging, data partitioning, scalability, and multi-tenant isolation.

• Practical knowledge of AWS, GCP, or both, covering cloud networking, identity and access management, compute, storage, and object storage like Amazon S3.

• Proficient in deploying and troubleshooting applications on Kubernetes using Helm.

• Experience in contributing to repeatable, reviewable infrastructure changes through Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.

• Proven track record of improving the reliability, observability, maintainability, and on-call preparedness of backend services.

• Skillful in diagnosing issues across application, data, orchestration, and infrastructure layers.

• Strong system design capabilities, including architectural decisions, documentation of constraints, and alignment of trade-offs.

• Ability to work independently in ambiguous situations by identifying challenges, driving solutions, and taking ownership.

• Capacity to learn and implement new languages, tools, and frameworks such as Ruby, Go, TypeScript, and Vue.

• Excellent written communication and asynchronous collaboration abilities.

• GitLab anticipates all team members to integrate AI into their daily workflows.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits to support your health, finances, and overall well-being.

• Flexible Paid Time Off.

• Team Member Resource Groups.

• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Growth and Development Fund.

• Parental Leave.