[Hiring] Cloud Platform Engineer @GitLab

Role Description

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

Salary Range

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. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits.

United States Salary Range: $115,000 — $194,000 USD