Staff Developer Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Scale GitLab effectively within GCP/GKE, focusing on governance, permissions, runners, and pipeline infrastructure.

• Design and execute pipeline orchestration and progressive delivery systems utilizing Argo Rollouts and Kargo, incorporating auto-promote and auto-rollback methodologies.

• Collaborate with Connectors teams on DevOps for third-party connectors, encompassing build, release, and deployment pipelines.

• Contribute to insights for developers and FinOps tooling and practices.

• Design and manage deployment and release safety protocols for extensive, distributed cloud systems.

• Provide guidance on the appropriate timing for rollbacks versus roll-forwards.

• Collaborate with engineering teams on secure database change management and production recovery strategies.

• Promote the adoption and ongoing enhancement of quality-of-life toolsets, AI SDLC systems, and developer tools.

• Develop and champion self-service tools for secure deployment and recovery procedures.

• Mentor and coach engineers across various teams on deployment safety, pipeline architecture, and infrastructure best practices.

• Work alongside Staff Engineers to identify and address gaps in Developer Platform coverage.

• Convert architectural guidance into actionable technical plans and practical execution.

• Employ product-management-oriented thinking for roadmapping, stakeholder alignment, and adoption strategies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience as a Software Engineer, DevOps/Platform Engineer, or SRE, with a proven track record at a Staff level.

• Extensive hands-on experience managing GitLab or a similar SCM/CI platform at scale.

• Familiarity with a self-hosted ecosystem such as GCP/GKE or AWS/EKS/EC2.

• Demonstrated expertise in designing and operating CI/CD pipeline and orchestration systems.

• Experience with progressive delivery tools like Argo Rollouts, Kargo, or similar solutions.

• Proven experience in managing safe deployment, rollback, and recovery processes for large-scale distributed cloud systems.

• Knowledge of database change management practices.

• Strong understanding of Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud infrastructure; GCP is preferred.

• Experience in coaching and mentoring engineers, and fostering the adoption of new tools and practices across teams.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills across teams.

• Willingness to occasionally attend meetings with teams based in the US and EMEA outside of standard local hours.

• Preferred: experience with AI-assisted tools and automation, test infrastructure, large-scale testing, observability/tracing, third-party database connector ecosystems, FinOps, developer productivity insights/metrics, developer tooling, software architecture, asynchronous systems, and product-management-related work.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for bonuses.

• Medical benefits.

• Retirement benefits.

• Financial benefits.

• Wellness benefits.

• Paid time off.

• Employee discounts.

• Support for a growth mindset throughout all stages of your career.

• A diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace.