**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer, GitLab Delivery: Upgrades based in India.** This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of large-scale software delivery and deployment experiences for self-managed environments. You will act as a technical leader, designing reliable backend systems that help organizations deploy, upgrade, and operate complex platforms with confidence. The position focuses on cloud-native architectures, automation, Kubernetes-based solutions, and improving operational resilience. You will collaborate with engineering, reliability, security, and product teams to define scalable solutions and technical strategies. As a senior technical contributor, you will influence architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and drive engineering excellence across teams. This is an opportunity to work on impactful infrastructure challenges while contributing to open-source technologies and modern DevOps practices. ### Accountabilities: The role is responsible for driving the technical direction of deployment and upgrade solutions, ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for self-managed environments. The position requires strong ownership of backend engineering initiatives, collaboration across teams, and the ability to solve complex infrastructure challenges. - Define technical strategies and architecture for cloud-native deployment, upgrade workflows, and self-managed platform solutions. - Design, develop, and maintain backend systems, automation frameworks, and deployment tooling using modern engineering practices. - Build and improve Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts, and orchestration solutions for stateful applications. - Develop automation for database migrations, rolling deployments, compatibility validation, and rollback processes. - Establish best practices for reliability, observability, testing, performance, and resilience. - Contribute to improving upgrade experiences by reducing operational complexity and minimizing service disruption. - Collaborate with engineering, product, security, and reliability teams to align solutions with customer needs. - Mentor engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing. - Support incident response activities, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives. ## Requirements: The ideal candidate brings extensive backend engineering experience, strong knowledge of cloud-native technologies, and the ability to guide technical decisions in complex production environments. - Strong professional experience designing and delivering production-grade software systems. - Advanced experience with Go development for large and complex codebases. - Experience with Kubernetes in production environments, including Operators, Helm charts, Custom Resource Definitions, and controller patterns. - Knowledge of cloud-native architectures, infrastructure automation, observability solutions, and DevOps practices. - Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible. - Experience managing stateful applications and databases, including PostgreSQL migrations, storage solutions, and reliability strategies. - Strong understanding of Linux systems, production operations, debugging, monitoring, and incident management. - Experience with distributed systems, scalability, high availability, and fault-tolerant architectures. - Ability to create technical proposals, document decisions, and influence teams through collaboration. - Familiarity with Ruby on Rails and application architecture is a plus. - Experience with open-source infrastructure or deployment tooling is highly desirable. - Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly. - Ability to work effectively in remote, asynchronous, and globally distributed teams. ## Benefits: - Competitive compensation package. - Flexible remote work environment. - Benefits designed to support health, financial security, and overall well-being. - Flexible paid time off. - Employee resource groups supporting diversity, inclusion, and community building. - Equity compensation and employee stock purchase opportunities. - Professional growth and development programs. - Parental leave support. - Opportunity to work with innovative technologies and globally distributed engineering teams. **How Jobgether works:** We use an **AI-powered matching process** to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. 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