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The role
GitLab is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for its Core DevOps team. You will design and improve backend capabilities of a large global platform, working across product, frontend, infrastructure, data and security. The role is listed as remote-global and works asynchronously.
What you will do
- Design and ship moderate to complex backend features with little guidance, choosing between modular-monolith code, shared components and separate services
- Define backend standards for style, maintainability, testing, APIs and operational readiness
- Mentor associate and intermediate engineers through code and design reviews
- Diagnose and prevent performance and reliability problems at scale and take part in incident response
- Use AI in production engineering work, evaluate how well it works and coach others on responsible use
- Work with product managers and designers to shape requirements
What they ask for
- Strong command of backend architecture, APIs, data systems and performance tuning in a complex product
- Proficiency in modern backend languages and a good grasp of systems programming; ability to adapt matters more than one language
- Experience designing or evolving modular backend boundaries, bounded contexts and migration-safe architectures
- Ability to lead through influence and clear asynchronous written communication
- Experience building or operating agentic AI systems in production, including loops, tool use and error handling
What they offer
- Flexible paid time off
- Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
- Growth and development fund
- Parental leave
- Team member resource groups
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on GitLab's careers page behind the apply button.
