# Senior Backend Engineer, Core DevOps

**Company**: GitLab
**Location**: Remote, United Kingdom
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, implement, and evolve product capabilities while solving high-scope backend problems. The ideal candidate will influence the technical and product direction of the team, work across product, frontend, infrastructure, data, and security boundaries, and help define standards for a high-scale, global product.

**Why you'll love this role**

- High Impact: Shape the architecture of a global platform used by millions.

- Technical Agency: Influence team objectives, technical direction, and long-range goals.

- Innovative Culture: Experiment with and integrate agentic AI into production engineering workflows.

- Autonomy: Thrive in a remote-first, asynchronous organization.

- User-Centric Collaboration: Partner with PMs and designers to shape requirements.

**What you'll do**

- Drive Technical Direction: Design and ship moderate to complex backend features.

- Raise the Bar: Advocate for product quality, security, availability, and performance.

- Mentor & Lead: Mentor associate and intermediate engineers.

- Operational Excellence: Diagnose and prevent performance/reliability issues at scale.

- AI Integration: Use AI in production engineering work to improve outcomes.

**What you'll bring**

- Deep Backend Expertise: Strong command of backend architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance tuning.

- Adaptability: Proficiency in modern backend languages and systems programming.

- Architectural Judgment: Experience designing or evolving modular backend boundaries.

- Influence: Ability to lead through influence, technical judgment, and clear written communication.

- Agentic AI Expertise: Proven experience building or operating agentic systems in production.

**Benefits**

- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being

- Flexible Paid Time Off

- Team Member Resource Groups

- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

- Growth and Development Fund

- Parental Leave

## Skills

### Required
- backend architecture
- APIs
- data systems
- performance tuning
- modern backend languages
- systems programming
- architectural judgment
- agentic AI systems

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