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Senior Platform Engineer, GitLab Orbit
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Remote, Canada; Remote, United States
Our take: The real work here is owning a Rust knowledge-graph backend end to end and making it reliable, observable, and easy to operate across a distributed, multi-tenant cloud system.
If you love making a distributed backend behave under real production pressure, this is a role where you own meaningful parts of a Rust service end to end, from technical design through rollout and the messy work of keeping it reliable. You will spend your days on distributed-system design, observability, and automation, on a small senior team that works asynchronously and trusts you to identify problems and drive them home. It suits someone who finds calm in incident readiness and satisfaction in a system that quietly runs well.
Needs
- rust backend building
- distributed systems design
- infrastructure tending
- automating toil
- observability tuning
- working in ambiguity
Rewards
- end-to-end ownership
- reliable systems
- remote autonomy
- tangible service health
Demands
- cross-team work
- incident response
- carrying on-call
- async collaboration
Grows
- learning new tools
- debugging distributed systems
- architectural judgement
- mentoring peers
Values
- strong ownership
- craftsmanship
- small senior team
- long-term thinking
Drains
- operational firefighting
- writing runbooks
- recurring ops work
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