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GitLabStaff Backend Engineer, Developer Experience
GitLab operates an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations boost developer productivity, enhance operational efficiency, decrease security and compliance risks, and speed up digital transformation.…
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GitLab operates an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations boost developer productivity, enhance operational efficiency, decrease security and compliance risks, and speed up digital transformation. The company seeks a Staff Backend Engineer for its Developer Experience group to collaborate cross-functionally and eliminate friction points affecting internal engineering teams. This high-visibility role involves partnering across six globally distributed developer experience teams to modernize testing methods, development workflows, and platform strategies.…
Job Description
GitLab operates an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations boost developer productivity, enhance operational efficiency, decrease security and compliance risks, and speed up digital transformation. The company seeks a Staff Backend Engineer for its Developer Experience group to collaborate cross-functionally and eliminate friction points affecting internal engineering teams. This high-visibility role involves partnering across six globally distributed developer experience teams to modernize testing methods, development workflows, and platform strategies. The person in this position will divide time between programming with Go and Ruby, formulating scalable architectures, and guiding teams toward streamlined operations. Core projects involve expanding internal developer platform adoption, configuring Kubernetes-based service onboarding, orchestrating test environments, and raising platform reliability and observability.
This role suits an experienced engineer who possesses deep technical knowledge in developer tooling, DevEx platforms, and testing frameworks. The selected candidate will set and execute roadmaps for Kubernetes workflows, define reusable deployment patterns, ensure deterministic environment deployments, and guide peers through technical choices. GitLab maintains a high-performance culture that values AI integration into daily workflows, transparency, iteration, and collaboration. Employment is offered on a full-time basis.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team focused on internal developer tooling and platform capabilities
- Define and implement a roadmap for Kubernetes-based developer workflows, balancing reliability, security, and efficiency
- Design reusable onboarding and deployment patterns for services running on Kubernetes
- Ensure environment provisioning and teardown are deterministic to prevent intermittent failures
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security, and application teams to turn Kubernetes features into streamlined workflows
- Establish engineering standards, documentation, automation, and feedback loops to accelerate service delivery
- Coach engineers on architectural decisions, incident responses, and production operations
- Represent the team with technical and organizational stakeholders, communicating trade-offs and utilizing metrics to prioritize
Requirements
- Extensive experience in building developer tooling, DevEx platforms, testing frameworks, or CI/CD systems at scale
- Strong practical Go experience in designing, implementing, testing, and operating production services, command-line tools, automation, or platform tooling
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for building or operating production workloads and platform capabilities
- Familiarity with the Kubernetes deployment lifecycle, including Helm, multi-cluster context handling, and third-party operators
- Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership and influence without authority across multiple functions
- Solid verbal and written communication skills suitable for a remote-first working environment
Qualifications
- Experience contributing to Ruby-based software systems
- Experience authoring a controller or operator
- Familiarity with DevOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and production operations
Core Skills
Benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
Frequently Asked Questions
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Is this position remote?
Yes, all roles at GitLab are remote, though some positions may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements.
What is the salary range for this role?
The United States base salary range for this position is $131,600 to $282,000 per year, excluding bonuses, equity, or benefits.
What programming languages are used in this role?
The position involves hands-on coding primarily in Go and Ruby.
What is the employment type?
This is a full-time position.
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