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Senior Backend Engineer, Core DevOps
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · UK
Experience
Senior · Not stated
Level inferred from job title
Job description
Senior Backend Engineer at GitLab responsible for designing, implementing, and evolving product capabilities, solving high-scope backend problems, and influencing technical and product direction. The role is remote and focused on a high-scale, global DevSecOps platform.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · UK
What you'll do
- Design and ship moderate to complex backend features with minimal guidance, making pragmatic choices between modular-monolith code, shared components, or independently operated services
- Advocate for product quality, security, availability, and performance; define backend standards for style, maintainability, testing, APIs, and operational readiness
- Mentor associate and intermediate engineers, remove technical blockers, and improve team delivery practices through code and design reviews
- Diagnose and prevent performance/reliability issues at scale; participate in incident response and act as a technical owner where appropriate
- Use AI in production engineering work to improve outcomes, evaluate its effectiveness, and coach others on responsible, high-judgment use
- Take part in on-call or operational support where the team's ownership model requires it
What we're looking for
- Strong command of backend architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance tuning in a complex product or service environment
- Proficiency in modern backend languages and a deep understanding of systems programming; ability to learn and adapt over mastery of a single language
- Experience designing or evolving modular backend boundaries, bounded contexts, and migration-safe architectures
- Ability to lead through influence, technical judgment, and clear written communication, bridging product needs and technical reality
- Proven experience building or operating agentic systems in production—architecting loops, tool-use, and error-handling strategies that ensure reliability at scale
Benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
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About GitLab
The intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps
GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.
Key facts
- DevSecOps software
- More than 50 million registered users
- More than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab
- Remote-first, asynchronous organization
- All roles are remote, with some location-based eligibility requirements