Senior Platform Engineer, GitLab Orbit

Job description

About this role

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. This role designs, builds and operates GitLab Orbit backend services, primarily in Rust, within a distributed, cloud-native environment.

Responsibilities

• - Design, build, and operate GitLab Orbit backend services, primarily in Rust, within a distributed, cloud-native environment.
• - Improve the deployment, monitoring, and operations of GitLab Orbit across GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed deployments using Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and AWS or Google Cloud services.
• - Automate recurring operational work and build tools that make deployments, upgrades, recovery, capacity management, and service maintenance safer and more efficient.
• - Strengthen observability across application, data, orchestration, and infrastructure layers by improving metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts, and service-level indicators.
• - Investigate production issues and write backend code that handles concurrency, partial failures, retries, consistency, idempotency, performance, and multi-tenant isolation.

Qualifications and requirements

• - Experience designing, building, and operating production backend services with strong Rust skills, or clear evidence you can ramp up in a Rust-first, performance-sensitive codebase.
• - Experience with distributed-system design, including concurrency, failure handling, consistency, messaging, data partitioning, scalability, and multi-tenant isolation.
• - Hands-on knowledge of AWS, GCP, or both, including cloud networking, identity and access management, compute, storage, and object storage.
• - Experience deploying and troubleshooting applications on Kubernetes with Helm, and infrastructure as code using Terraform or similar.
• - Experience improving the reliability, observability, maintainability, and on-call readiness of backend services.