This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer, GitLab Delivery: Upgrades based in India.

This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of large-scale software delivery and deployment experiences for self-managed environments.
You will act as a technical leader, designing reliable backend systems that help organizations deploy, upgrade, and operate complex platforms with confidence.
The position focuses on cloud-native architectures, automation, Kubernetes-based solutions, and improving operational resilience.
You will collaborate with engineering, reliability, security, and product teams to define scalable solutions and technical strategies.
As a senior technical contributor, you will influence architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and drive engineering excellence across teams.
This is an prospect to work on impactful infrastructure challenges while contributing to open-source technologies and modern DevOps practices.

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The role is responsible for driving the technical direction of deployment and upgrade solutions, ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for self-managed environments. The position requires strong ownership of backend engineering initiatives, collaboration across teams, and the ability to solve complex infrastructure challenges.
- Define technical strategies and architecture for cloud-native deployment, upgrade workflows, and self-managed platform solutions.
- Design, develop, and maintain backend systems, automation frameworks, and deployment tooling using modern engineering practices.
- Build and improve Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts, and orchestration solutions for stateful applications.
- Develop automation for database migrations, rolling deployments, compatibility validation, and rollback processes.
- Establish best practices for reliability, observability, testing, performance, an

📌 Staff Backend Engineer, Gitlab Delivery: Upgrades (India)
🏢 Jobgether
📍 India