# Senior Backend Engineer, Core DevOps: Container Registry

**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 and influencing the technical and product direction of their teams.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will:

- Drive technical direction by designing and shipping moderate to complex backend features with minimal guidance

- Raise the bar by advocating for product quality, security, availability, and performance

- Mentor and lead associate and intermediate engineers, removing technical blockers and improving team delivery practices

- Diagnose and prevent performance and reliability issues at scale, participating in incident response and acting as a technical owner where appropriate

- Integrate AI into production engineering work to improve outcomes, evaluate its effectiveness, and coach others on responsible use

The ideal candidate will have:

- Deep backend expertise with a strong command of backend architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance tuning

- Adaptability with proficiency in modern backend languages and a deep understanding of systems programming

- Architectural judgment with experience designing or evolving modular backend boundaries, bounded contexts, and migration-safe architectures

- Influence through technical judgment and clear written communication

- Agentic AI expertise with proven experience building or operating agentic systems in production

GitLab supports full-time employees with benefits such as flexible paid time off, team member resource groups, equity compensation, and a growth and development fund.

## Skills

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

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