Senior Backend Engineer, Core DevOps

Overview

As a Senior Backend Engineer at GitLab, you design and evolve backend capabilities for a global, high-scale platform. You influence technical direction across teams and improve reliability, performance, and security. You will work across product, frontend, infra, data, and security domains, shaping architecture and standards for a production-ready system. You will also integrate agentic AI to enhance engineering workflows and system resilience. This role offers meaningful impact in a remote-first, highly collaborative environment.

Pay / Benefits

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

Responsibilities

• Design and ship moderate to complex backend features with minimal guidance
• Set and defend backend standards for quality, security, performance, APIs, and operability
• Mentor associate and intermediate engineers and improve delivery practices through reviews
• Diagnose and prevent performance/reliability issues at scale; participate in incident response
• Integrate AI into production engineering workflows and coach others on responsible use

Key requirements

• Deep backend expertise in architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance tuning
• Adaptability with modern backend languages and systems programming
• Architectural judgment for modular boundaries, bounded contexts, and safe migrations
• Influence through technical judgment and clear written communication
• Agentic AI expertise with production experience building or operating AI-enabled systems

• Strong written communication
• Cross-functional collaboration with PMs and designers
• Mentorship and technical leadership
• Backend architecture and APIs
• Data systems and performance tuning
• Modern backend languages and systems programming

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