Staff Engineer, GitLab Delivery - Operate Remote, Americas; Remote, EMEA

Staff Engineer, Git Lab Delivery - Operate

Git Lab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered Dev Sec Ops  Platform , used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating human progress. Our platform unites teams and organizations, breaking down barriers and redefining what's possible in software development.

Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise and Duo Agent Platform , customers get AI benefits at every stage of the SDLC.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. Git Lab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems.

Co‑create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

As a Staff Engineer within the Git Lab Operate team, you will lead the technical direction for Git Lab's self‑managed deployment strategy, with a particular focus on solving zero‑downtime upgrades and operational excellence s is a high‑impact technical leadership role where you'll architect and implement the systems that enable thousands of organizations to deploy, upgrade, and operate Git Lab reliably in their own infrastructure.

You'll be the technical anchor for our newly formed Operate team, driving the evolution of Git Lab's deployment tooling from traditional packaging approaches toward cloud‑native, operator‑driven automation. Your work will directly impact Git Lab's ability to deliver new features to self‑managed customers faster while dramatically reducing operational complexity and upgrade friction.

The Git Lab Operate team serves as a critical bridge between Git Lab engineering and our self‑managed customers, ensuring our products are easily deployable, secure, and scalable across a range of environments—from single‑node VM deployments to large‑scale Kubernetes clusters supporting tens of thousands of users.

• Define the technical vision for Git Lab's cloud‑native deployment and upgrades future, balancing operational simplicity, customer needs, and engineering constraints
• Lead the design and implementation of the new tooling, including Operator(s), enabling automated lifecycle management and zero‑downtime upgrades
• Architect upgrade orchestration systems that safely coordinate complex multi‑component upgrades across databases, application services, and auxiliary components
• Establish operational maturity standards and guidance for new services being integrated into Git Lab's deployment tooling and empowering development teams for the end‑to‑end of their components
• Drive technical decisions around service integration patterns, deployment models, and operational interfaces

Lead complex initiatives overarching multiple groups and be the technical leadership voice that set the direction and drives technical decisions

• Design production‑grade Kubernetes Operators that aim to reliable reconciliation logic for complex stateful applications
• Design and implement upgrade orchestration that handles database migrations, rolling deployments, compatibility checks, and rollback capabilities
• Develop tooling and automation to reduce the operational complexity of running Git Lab at scale
• Create integration frameworks that enable development teams to ship new services with standardized deployment patterns
• Maintain and evolve Git Lab Helm Charts to support both simple and complex deployment topologies

• Contribute to safe database migration strategies for zero‑downtime upgrades across Postgre
  
  SQL and other stateful components
• Implement…