# Senior Backend Engineer

**Company**: GitLab
**Location**: Bangalore, India
**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. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will drive technical direction, raise the bar for product quality, mentor and lead engineers, and ensure operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

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

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

- Mentor & Lead: Mentor associate and intermediate engineers, remove technical blockers, and improve team delivery practices.

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

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

Requirements:

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

- Adaptability: Proficiency in modern backend languages and a deep understanding of 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
- modular backend boundaries
- agentic AI systems

### Nice to have
- high-throughput distributed systems
- concurrency
- profiling
- containerized production operations
- Kubernetes
- database performance knowledge
- PostgreSQL
- ClickHouse
- schema evolution
- partitioning
- large-scale modular monoliths
- event-driven systems
- public technical communication
- open-source maintenance
- developer-focused SaaS

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