# Staff Backend Engineer, Core DevOps

**Company**: GitLab
**Location**: Remote, Canada; Remote, United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $152,800-$259,200 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organisations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation.

As a Staff Backend Engineer on GitLab's Core DevOps team, you'll provide technical leadership across your team and adjacent teams. You'll lead large backend initiatives, guide the modernisation of a large monolith into modular, reusable, appropriately independent systems, and set standards that help teams move faster without compromising quality, security, reliability, or operability.

## Responsibilities

- Lead the technical design and delivery of backend initiatives that span teams, and identify and remove systemic bottlenecks across product and infrastructure groups.

- Drive modular backend, service, data, and platform architecture, including modernisation of the monolith and legacy backends while preventing fragmentation and service sprawl.

- Define and improve standards for application programming interfaces, contracts, compatibility, schema evolution, testing, security, performance, observability, operability, and maintainability.

- Establish patterns for dependency management, data ownership, eventing, failure isolation, service maturity, and operational documentation.

- Establish Go service patterns and Kubernetes operating practices where they matter to the production estate, and guide Rust adoption where it addresses systems, security, performance, or supply-chain needs.

- Take part in on-call and incident response for systems your teams own, serve as a technical escalation point during complex incidents, and turn lessons from incidents into lasting improvements.

- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership on platform roadmap decisions and investment trade-offs.

- Mentor Senior and Intermediate engineers, reduce technical debt, build reusable patterns that improve team throughput, and lead adoption of artificial intelligence-assisted and agentic workflows with quality, security, privacy, and operational guardrails.

## Requirements

- A record of leading technical work across more than one team or a broad product area.

- Deep backend architecture and production experience with complex applications, services, or platforms, including application programming interfaces, service platforms, data systems, modular monoliths, or shared backend components.

- Experience modernising a monolith or legacy backend architecture in production and using modular approaches such as bounded contexts, package encapsulation, ports and adapters, service extraction, or event-driven boundaries.

- Experience building alignment through clear written proposals and decision records so teams document, understand, and adopt technical decisions.

- Experience making trade-offs among customer outcomes, delivery speed, technical health, reliability, and long-term platform investment.

- Experience mentoring engineers and shaping standards through code review, documentation, and practice.

- Production experience with artificial intelligence-assisted or agentic engineering workflows, including improving how a team adopts them.

## 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
- modular backend
- service architecture
- data systems
- Go
- Kubernetes
- Rust
- artificial intelligence-assisted workflows

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