GitLab

Senior Backend Engineer, Core DevOps

Remote - Global

Senior

REMOTE

GitLab is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for its Core DevOps team. In this fully remote role, you will design and ship complex backend features, influence technical direction, mentor engineers, and help integrate agentic AI into production engineering workflows. GitLab serves over 50 million registered users and more than half of the Fortune 100, so your work will have global scale and impact. The role emphasizes architectural judgment, operational excellence, and cross-functional collaboration with product, frontend, infrastructure, and security teams.

Backend architecture

API design

Data systems

Performance tuning

Systems programming

Modular monolith design

Microservices architecture

Code review

Incident response

Agentic AI systems

Asynchronous communication

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