# Staff Backend Engineer, EMEA

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

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/8775039002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

GitLab is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to provide technical leadership across teams and solve complex problems in the EMEA region.

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will lead large, cross-cutting backend initiatives, drive the modular architecture strategy, and define standards for teams to move faster without compromising quality, security, reliability, or operability.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead cross-cutting initiatives and identify systemic bottlenecks

- Own architecture strategy and drive modernization of the monolith and legacy backends

- Set standards for APIs, contracts, compatibility, and testing

- Establish shared patterns for dependency management, data ownership, and operational documentation

- Own what you build in production and participate in on-call and incident response

- Influence and partner with Product and Engineering leadership on platform-level roadmap decisions

- Grow engineers and mentor senior and intermediate engineers

- Lead AI adoption and define guardrails for AI-assisted workflows

Requirements:

- Cross-team technical leadership experience

- Deep backend architecture and production experience

- Experience modernizing monoliths or legacy backend architectures

- Strong ability to create alignment through clear written proposals

- Product judgment and mentorship experience

- Experience with AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows

Preferred skills:

- Go services and APIs at scale

- Kubernetes and cloud-native operations

- Rust adoption or production ownership

- Ruby/Rails modularization and large-monolith modernization

- PostgreSQL scaling and data partitioning

## Skills

### Required
- backend engineering
- architecture strategy
- technical leadership
- AI adoption

### Nice to have
- Go services
- Kubernetes
- Rust
- Ruby/Rails
- PostgreSQL

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