Specialty
The role
GitLab is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer for its Core DevOps team, which owns core repository capabilities from Git command-line operations to web-based code exploration. The role leads large backend initiatives and monolith modernization. GitLab works all-remote and asynchronously.
What you will do
- Lead technical design and delivery of backend initiatives that span teams and remove systemic bottlenecks
- Drive modular backend and platform architecture, including modernizing the monolith and legacy backends
- Set standards for APIs, contracts, schema evolution, testing, security, performance and observability
- Establish Go service patterns and Kubernetes practices and guide Rust adoption where it fits
- Join on-call, act as technical escalation point in incidents and turn lessons into improvements
- Mentor engineers and partner with Product and Engineering leadership on roadmap trade-offs
What they ask for
- Record of leading technical work across more than one team or a broad product area
- Deep backend architecture and production experience with complex services or platforms
- Experience modernizing a monolith or legacy backend using modular approaches
- Ability to build alignment through clear written proposals and decision records
- Experience weighing customer outcomes, delivery speed, technical health and reliability
- Experience mentoring engineers through code review and documentation
- Production experience with AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows
- Comfort working asynchronously and communicating decisions in writing
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.
