Senior Platform Engineer, GitLab Orbit at GitLab

Department: Data Engineering

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Compensation

$139,200 – $235,200/yr

Setup: Remote - Canada
Location: Oregon
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Sep 14, 2026

Description

GitLab is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer for its Orbit team to build, scale, and operate a distributed, cloud-native knowledge-graph data service. The role focuses on Rust backend services, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS or GCP infrastructure, observability, production reliability, graph query engines, indexing pipelines, cloud storage, and multi-tenant isolation. It is a remote position with a United States base salary range of $139,200 to $235,200 USD.

Required Skills

Rust
Kubernetes
Terraform
AWS
GCP
ClickHouse
NATS
S3
MCP

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Experience designing, building, and operating production backend services with strong Rust skills
Experience with distributed-system design, including concurrency, failure handling, consistency, messaging, data partitioning, scalability, and multi-tenant isolation
Hands-on knowledge of AWS, GCP, or both, including cloud networking, identity and access management, compute, storage, and object storage
Experience deploying and troubleshooting applications on Kubernetes with Helm and contributing to repeatable, reviewable infrastructure changes using Terraform
Experience improving the reliability, observability, maintainability, and on-call readiness of backend services
Preferred Qualifications: Ability to learn and apply new languages, tools, and frameworks, including Ruby, Go, TypeScript, and Vue, along with strong written communication and asynchronous collaboration skills
Translation Company Name: GitLab