Senior Backend Engineer(Go), Continuous Delivery

GitLab is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer(Go), Continuous Delivery in India.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. 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, in

Responsibilities

• Design and develop features for the CD platform that are secure, well-tested, and high-performance, with a focus on distributed systems architecture in Go.

• Take end-to-end ownership of features from design through implementation, code review, deployment, and iterative refinement.

• Contribute to architectural decisions on a greenfield codebase, partnering with the Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer to assess feasibility and scope.

• Advocate for product quality, security, and performance improvements with impact across the team, and help define standards through active code review.

• Provide mentorship to junior and intermediate engineers, helping them grow and remove blockers to their autonomy.

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners — Product Management, UX, adjacent engineering teams — to deliver against product commitments.

• Participate in on-call rotations to assist with troubleshooting and urgent engineering issues.

What you'll bring

• Significant professional experience building backend services in Go, applying Go best practices in production environments.

• Demonstrated ability to design and build scalable, distributed systems — particularly those involving durable workflow execution, state persistence, and replay patterns.

• Experience building or contributing to release orchestration, deployment automation, or continuous delivery systems at scale.

• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production, including deploying and operating services across diverse environments.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes deployment patterns and progressive delivery strategies such as blue/green and canary deployments.

• Familiarity with GitOps workflows and tools in that ecosystem.

• Experience with event-driven architectures and policy-based governance in building reliable, enterprise-grade delivery systems.

• Demonstrated ability to incorporate AI tools into daily engineering workflows to drive efficiency and deliver higher quality outcomes.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with AI engineering or building AI-integrated product features.

• Ruby on Rails experience.

About GitLab

The GitLab CD team is a newly formed group within the Deploy stage. The team will be primarily Go engineers, with Ruby on Rails and frontend engineers joining as the product matures. You will work closely with adjacent teams across Verify, Runner, and Infrastructure, building in a collaborative, async-first environment where engineers take real ownership of outcomes. This is an exciting opportunity to shape something new within an established company operating at significant scale. How GitLab Su