Software Engineer, Delivery: Release

About this role

Build and improve GitLab’s release tooling, infrastructure, and processes to make software delivery safer, faster, and more reliable. Partner with SREs and product teams to automate releases, improve observability, and optimize delivery across GitLab’s supported environments.

About the company

GitLab is a DevSecOps platform that brings source control, CI/CD, security, and project management into a single application. It helps engineering teams plan, build, secure, and ship software faster.

The team

Software Delivery: Release, within the Infrastructure Platforms Department.

Stack

What you'll do

• Build tools and frameworks to automate the release process.
• Develop release features and contribute to the Release Framework.
• Help teams implement solutions that accelerate releases.
• Create scalable frameworks and improve application observability.
• Develop monitoring and alerting for release velocity.
• Identify delivery bottlenecks and optimize processes.
• Participate in the Release Manager rotation.

What we're looking for

• Strong coding background in Ruby or Go; willingness to learn Ruby is required.
• Experience working on large-scale systems.
• Experience optimizing continuous delivery and deployment pipelines and related tooling.
• Interest in cloud platforms, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Background in application and systems observability.
• Collaborative mindset, curiosity, and ability to learn.
• Product development mindset.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in Ruby.
• Ruby on Rails knowledge.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off.
• Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan.
• Growth and development fund.
• Parental leave.
• Health, financial, and well-being benefits.