Senior Platform Engineer, GitLab Orbit

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate GitLab Orbit backend services, primarily in Rust, within a distributed, cloud-native environment.
• Improve the deployment, monitoring, and operations of GitLab Orbit across GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed deployments using Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and cloud services from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or both.
• Automate recurring operational work and build tools that make deployments, upgrades, recovery, capacity management, and service maintenance safer and more efficient.
• Strengthen observability across application, data, orchestration, and infrastructure layers by improving metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts, and service-level indicators to track availability, error rates, and incident response time while collaborating with site reliability engineering teams to improve incident…
• Investigate production issues, address underlying causes, and write backend code that handles concurrency, partial failures, retries, consistency, idempotency, performance, and multi-tenant isolation.
• Build and improve the graph query engine, software development lifecycle (SDLC) and code indexing pipelines, cloud storage integrations, and application programming interface (API) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) surfaces.
• Design reliable, scalable, and cost-aware data workflows using systems such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), ClickHouse, NATS, and Siphon.
• Own changes from technical design through rollout and iteration, documenting constraints and trade-offs while collaborating asynchronously with product, data, infrastructure, security, delivery, artificial intelligence, and SRE teams.

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