9 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead large backend initiatives spanning multiple teams and remove systemic bottlenecks across product and infrastructure groups.
- Drive modular backend, service, data, and platform architecture, including modernization of monolithic and legacy backends.
- Define standards for APIs, contracts, compatibility, schema evolution, testing, security, performance, observability, operability, maintainability, and production readiness.
- Establish shared patterns for dependency management, data ownership, eventing, failure isolation, service maturity, and operational documentation.
- Guide Go service patterns, Kubernetes operating practices, and responsible Rust adoption where appropriate.
- Participate in on-call and incident response, serve as a technical escalation point, and improve architecture based on production learnings.
- Influence technical direction and platform roadmap decisions across teams without formal authority.
- Mentor Senior and Intermediate engineers and improve technical capability through standards, documentation, and reusable patterns.
- Lead adoption of AI-assisted and agentic workflows with appropriate quality, security, privacy, and operational guardrails.
Requirements
- Sustained technical leadership experience across more than one team or a broad product area.
- Deep backend architecture and production experience with complex applications, services, or platforms.
- Experience scaling or governing APIs, service platforms, data systems, modular monoliths, or shared backend components.
- Production experience modernizing a monolith or legacy backend using modular architecture approaches.
- Ability to build alignment through clear written proposals and decision records without relying on formal authority.
- Strong product judgment balancing customer outcomes, delivery speed, technical health, reliability, and long-term platform investment.
- Experience mentoring engineers and shaping standards through code review, documentation, and example.
- Production experience with AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows and improving team adoption of them.
- Helpful experience with Go services and APIs, Kubernetes and cloud-native operations, Rust, Ruby/Rails modularization, PostgreSQL scaling, data partitioning, queues, messaging, distributed systems, SaaS or self-managed deployment constraints, and security-sensitive or software supply-chain engineering.
Benefits
- Health, financial, and well-being benefits.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Team Member Resource Groups.
- Equity compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Growth and Development Fund.
- Parental leave.
- Remote-first work arrangement; all roles are remote, with some location-based eligibility requirements.
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About GitLab
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