Staff Backend Engineer, Gitlab Delivery: Upgrades

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Skills you'll use

What you'll do

• 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 that help development teams manage the lifecycle of their components.
• Design and maintain Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts, and upgrade orchestration tooling for self-managed GitLab deployments across varied environments.
• Develop automation and integration frameworks for database migrations, rolling deployments, compatibility checks, and rollback paths.
• Define database and application lifecycle strategies, including safe PostgreSQL migration approaches and validation mechanisms that reduce downtime risk.
• Work with Product Management, GitLab.com 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 for self-managed deployments, and contribute to incident response and post-incident learning.

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