Software Engineer, Delivery : Release

The Software Delivery Section, part of the Infrastructure Platforms Department, is dedicated to enhancing the safety, reliability, and overall customer experience of GitLab's complete software delivery process. We aim to provide seamless and efficient delivery of GitLab products across all platforms, including SaaS multi-tenant, self-managed, and SaaS single-tenant environments. Our primary goals are to accelerate delivery cycles, minimize incidents, and ensure high-quality releases that consistently meet and exceed customer expectations. Backend Engineers with the Software Delivery:Release bring not only a strong background in backend development but also a solid understanding of, or keen interest in, infrastructure and operations. In this role, you will work alongside Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to enhance release management tooling, infrastructure, and processes. Backend Engineers provide a software development perspective, collaborating closely to deliver efficient and safe solutions for streamlined code delivery across various supported environments.

Responsibilities

Guarantee the GitLab Release Process; Create new tools and frameworks to automate the release process; Build new GitLab release features to replace existing custom tooling by contributing to new work for our Release Framework; Work with individual teams on defining and implementing solutions that will help them release quicker; Create frameworks that allow engineers to write code that scales with demand; Help teams instrument their code and recognize parts of code that could benefit from increased observability; Work closely with peer Infrastructure Platforms groups to control the impact of application code running in user facing products; Help communicate the release schedule clearly with others; Develop monitoring and alerting to measure release process velocity; Identify process bottlenecks and introduce optimizations; Participate in Release Manager rotation; Take part in on-call or operational support where your team's ownership model requires it

Requirements

Strong coding background; Mandatory Ruby or Go (willing to learn Ruby is a must); Experience working on large-scale systems; Experience optimizing Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment pipelines as well as the tooling and processes that go with them; Interest in cloud platforms, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code tools; Application and systems observability background; Collaboration mindset, boundless curiosity and a demonstrable ability to learn; A product development mindset when developing new components; Share GitLab's values and work in accordance with those values

Nice to have

Proficiency with Ruby

Benefits

Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being; Flexible Paid Time Off; Team Member Resource Groups; Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan; Growth and Development Fund; Parental Leave