Software Engineer, Delivery : Release
GitLab · Posted Oct 28
DevSecOps platform, software version control, CI/CD pipeline, and AI-assisted development services
Get a personal compatibility score
Add a resume for personal matches
About the role
The Software Delivery Section, part of GitLab's Infrastructure Platforms Department, focuses on the safety, reliability, and customer experience of GitLab's end-to-end software delivery process across SaaS multi-tenant, self-managed, and SaaS single-tenant environments. The team aims to accelerate delivery cycles, minimize incidents, and ensure high-quality releases. This Backend Engineer role works alongside Site Reliability Engineers to enhance release management tooling, infrastructure, and processes, building automation and GitLab release features from a software development perspective.
What you will 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 new work for our Release Framework
- Work with individual teams on defining and implementing solutions that will help them release quicker
- Create frameworks that allow engineers to write code that scales with demand
- Help teams instrument their code and helps 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
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Strong coding background. Mandatory Ruby or Go (willing to learn Ruby is a must). Proficiency with Ruby is a strong plus. Ruby on Rails knowledge is not mandatory
- 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
Benefits and support
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
About GitLab
GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, delivered as a single application that empowers development, security, and operations teams to ship software faster and more securely. Operating as one of the world's largest all-remote companies, GitLab integrates the entire software lifecycle from planning and source code management to CI/CD and automated security testing. Millions of users and thousands of organizations globally rely on GitLab to scale their development workflows and adopt agentic AI engineering.
- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 2375 employees
- Founded
- 2011
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $435M raised
- 2022-09-16Post IPOUndisclosed
- 2019-09-17Series E$268M
- 2018-09-19Series D$100M
- 2017-10-10Series C$20M
- 2016-03-15Series B$4M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Product and Marketing Officer
Chief Business and Legal Officer
Recent coverage
BleepingComputer
GitLab warns of new max severity code execution vulnerability2026-10-22
GitLab Press Release
GitLab Announces the Foundation for the Governed Software Factory2026-10-06
GitLab Press Release
GitLab 19.4 Brings New Agentic Automation at a Lower Cost2026-09-17