Software Engineer, Delivery : Release

Overview

Backend engineer on the Software Delivery:Release team, working alongside SREs to improve GitLab's release management tooling, infrastructure and processes so code ships safely and quickly across SaaS multi-tenant, self-managed and SaaS single-tenant environments.

What you'll do

• 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 the Release Framework.
• Work with individual teams to define and implement solutions that 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.

What you'll need

• Strong coding background.
• Mandatory Ruby or Go (willingness 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.
• Shares GitLab's values and works in accordance with them.

Nice to have

• Proficiency with Ruby.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• All roles are remote; some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements.