Senior GitLab Engineer

Location: Helsinki, Finland or London, UK; hybrid, three days a week at the office

Company

hirify.global is building a full-stack AI cloud spanning data centers, hardware, and a cloud platform for AI teams. The company is headquartered in Helsinki and operates globally with offices in London and San Francisco.

What you will do

• Own the self-managed GitLab service end to end, including configuration, maintenance, upgrades, troubleshooting, and roadmap decisions.
• Design highly available, performant, scalable, and recoverable GitLab architecture, including capacity planning.
• Build automated backups and regularly test restores for repositories, databases, configuration, and secrets; define recovery targets and document continuity procedures.
• Build and operate shared GitLab CI runners, establish connectivity and security standards, and support reliable pipelines.
• Monitor health, performance, storage, and capacity; configure actionable alerts, lead incident response and root-cause analysis, and resolve underlying problems.
• Manage secure changes, SSO, access groups, tokens, service accounts, audit logs, API and CLI automation, documentation, and backup-owner training.

Requirements

• Several years of production experience running self-managed GitLab, including upgrades, backups, restores, and incident response.
• Deep understanding of GitLab components including Rails, Sidekiq, Gitaly, PostgreSQL, Redis, and object storage, including their failure modes.
• Experience with GitLab reference architectures and high-availability designs, including trade-offs between Linux package and cloud-native deployments.
• Experience running GitLab Runner at scale, including executors, autoscaling, caching, isolation, and runner security.
• Strong Linux and infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform, Ansible, or Salt, plus automation using Bash, Python, or similar.
• Experience with Prometheus-compatible monitoring tools and Grafana, or equivalent.
• A service mindset focused on making GitLab reliable and effective for developers.

Nice to have

• Experience running GitLab on Kubernetes with Helm and GitOps workflows.
• Experience moving self-managed GitLab between architectures or consolidating instances.
• PostgreSQL operations beyond the capabilities managed by GitLab.
• Experience with GitLab security and compliance features in ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar environments.
• Experience connecting self-hosted AI models to GitLab features.
• Experience tuning GitLab for large repositories and demanding CI workloads.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, permanent employment.
• Cash and equity compensation with local benefits.
• Work alongside engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.
• Join while the infrastructure and platform are still being built and help shape their direction.

Hiring process

• Apply through the Careers page; applications sent by email are not accepted.
• Applications are reviewed as candidates are found, with no artificial deadline.