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GitLabSenior Backend Engineer, Core DevOps
GitLab operates as an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, aiding organizations in accelerating digital transformation, boosting developer productivity, and enhancing operational efficiency. Over 50 million registered…
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GitLab operates as an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, aiding organizations in accelerating digital transformation, boosting developer productivity, and enhancing operational efficiency. Over 50 million registered users utilize GitLab to deliver better and more secure software. As a Senior Backend Engineer, Core DevOps based in the United Kingdom, you will design, build, and evolve product features while tackling complex backend challenges. This remote position suits engineers who want to move…
Job Description
GitLab operates as an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, aiding organizations in accelerating digital transformation, boosting developer productivity, and enhancing operational efficiency. Over 50 million registered users utilize GitLab to deliver better and more secure software.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, Core DevOps based in the United Kingdom, you will design, build, and evolve product features while tackling complex backend challenges. This remote position suits engineers who want to move beyond assigned tasks to actively elevate system reliability, performance, and quality. You will collaborate across multiple departments including product, frontend, infrastructure, data, and security, while incorporating agentic AI into engineering workflows.
GitLab looks for backend experts who can demonstrate strong architectural judgment, influence technical direction, and communicate effectively in an asynchronous, remote-first setting. Candidates are encouraged to apply even if they do not meet every single listed expectation.
Responsibilities
- Design and release moderate to complex backend features with minimal oversight
- Choose pragmatically between modular-monolith code, independent services, and shared components
- Establish and champion backend standards for style, maintainability, testing, APIs, and operational readiness
- Review code and design choices to guide associate and intermediate engineers and resolve technical obstacles
- Identify, diagnose, and resolve performance and reliability issues at scale
- Engage in incident response and assume technical ownership where necessary
- Utilize and assess AI in production engineering workflows and guide others on responsible application
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in backend architecture, data systems, performance tuning, and APIs in complex environments
- Familiarity with modern backend languages and systems programming concepts
- Experience in designing or evolving migration-safe architectures and modular backend boundaries
- Demonstrated ability to build or operate agentic systems in production environments
- Strong written communication skills suited for a remote and asynchronous work setting
Core Skills
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Team member resource groups
- Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
- Growth and development fund
- Parental leave
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This position is remote based in the United Kingdom.
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The role is full-time.
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