Posted 23 days ago
Cloud Platform Engineer
@ GitLab
Remote in Canada
Overview
GitLab is hiring a Cloud Platform Engineer for its Runway team to design, build and maintain the Kubernetes-based infrastructure and developer tooling behind its engineering organization. The work covers production Kubernetes clusters, Argo CD GitOps workflows and Terraform infrastructure as code, with on-call duties where the team's ownership model requires them. The role is remote and the posted US base salary range is $115,000 to $194,000 USD.
Responsibilities:
- Operate and improve production Kubernetes clusters across cloud environments
- Own and extend Argo CD GitOps workflows and deployment standards
- Write and maintain reusable Terraform modules
- Monitor platform health and respond to incidents
- Collaborate with application teams on onboarding and self-service tooling
Requirements summary:
- Experience operating Kubernetes in production on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure
- Experience with Argo CD or comparable GitOps tooling such as Flux
- Proficiency in Terraform, including remote state, workspaces and module design
- Ability to write automation in Python, Bash or Go
- Familiarity with Helm and networking fundamentals
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-14
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-14
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-05
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Job details
| Department | Engineering |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Flexible hours, Generous parental leave, Stock or equity, Wellness |
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GitLab
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GitLab is the Intelligent Orchestration Platform where software teams and their AI agents stay in flow to amplify their capacity for innovation. Together, they automate repetitive tasks to plan, build, secure, test, deploy and maintain software. With GitLab, software teams spend less time on coordination overhead and more time on the next big idea. GitLab Duo Agent Platform provides AI agents that automate tasks across the software lifecycle. Agents handle code generation, security analysis, code review, CI/CD troubleshooting, and custom workflows — while teams maintain control through enterprise governance. Build what's next with us. Explore open roles and join our talent community: https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/
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GitLab is the Intelligent Orchestration Platform where software teams and their AI agents stay in flow to amplify their capacity for innovation. Together, they automate repetitive tasks to plan, build, secure, test, deploy and maintain software. With GitLab, software teams spend less time on coordination overhead and more time on the next big idea. GitLab Duo Agent Platform provides AI agents that automate tasks…
| Field | Value |
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| Industry | IT Services and IT Consulting |
| Company size | 1,001-5,000 employees |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Organization type | Public Company |
| Year founded | 2014 |
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GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.
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Cloud Platform Engineer
An overview of this role
As a Cloud Platform Engineer on the Runway team, you'll help design, build, and maintain the infrastructure and developer tooling that powers our engineering organization. You'll advance our Kubernetes-based platform, mature our GitOps practices, and expand infrastructure as code adoption across the business. This hands-on role brings together infrastructure, automation, and developer experience, helping application teams deploy and operate their services.
What you’ll do
- Operate and improve production Kubernetes clusters across cloud environments, managing upgrades, scaling, and reliability throughout the cluster lifecycle.
- Own and extend Argo CD-based GitOps workflows, maintaining ApplicationSets, managing sync policies, and enforcing deployment standards across environments.
- Write, review, and maintain reusable Terraform modules, with clear practices for state management and drift detection.
- Monitor platform health, respond to incidents, conduct post-mortems, and improve availability, performance, and observability.
- Collaborate with application teams to onboard services, and create documentation, runbooks, and self-service tooling that improves developer productivity.
- Implement role-based access control, network policies, and secrets management to meet infrastructure security and compliance requirements.
- Integrate platform capabilities with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to support end-to-end delivery workflows.
- Take part in on-call or operational support where your team’s ownership model requires it.
What you’ll bring
- Experience operating Kubernetes in production and working with at least one major cloud provider: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure.
- Experience with Argo CD or comparable GitOps tooling, such as Flux.
- Proficiency in Terraform for cloud infrastructure provisioning, including remote state, workspaces, and module design.
- Ability to write scripts and automation in Python, Bash, or Go.
- Familiarity with Helm for Kubernetes package management.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals, including the Domain Name System (DNS), load balancing, ingress, and service mesh concepts.
- Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to document systems and collaborate across teams.
- Optional: experience with managed, multi-cluster, or multi-region Kubernetes, service meshes, policy as code, observability, or Kubernetes-native infrastructure as code; open source or platform tooling contributions; or relevant certifications.
About the team
The Runway team builds and maintains infrastructure and developer tooling for GitLab's engineering organization. Its work centers on a Kubernetes-based platform, GitOps delivery practices, and infrastructure as code. The team collaborates with application teams to onboard services and improve developer productivity through documentation, runbooks, and self-service tooling.
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
United States Salary Range
$115,000—$194,000 USD
How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees
- 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
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