12 hours ago
Remote, United States or Remote, CanadaStaff+
Base Salary
$153k - $259k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design and delivery of backend initiatives spanning teams and remove systemic bottlenecks across product and infrastructure groups.
- Drive modular backend, service, data, and platform architecture, including modernization of the monolith and legacy backends.
- Define standards for APIs, contracts, compatibility, schema evolution, testing, security, performance, observability, operability, and maintainability.
- Establish patterns for dependency management, data ownership, eventing, failure isolation, service maturity, and operational documentation.
- Establish Go service patterns and Kubernetes operating practices and guide Rust adoption for systems, security, performance, or supply-chain needs.
- Participate in on-call and incident response, serve as a technical escalation point, and turn incident lessons into lasting improvements.
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership on platform roadmap decisions and investment trade-offs.
- Mentor Senior and Intermediate engineers, reduce technical debt, develop reusable patterns, and lead adoption of AI-assisted and agentic workflows with appropriate guardrails.
Requirements
- Experience leading technical work across more than one team or a broad product area.
- Deep backend architecture and production experience with complex applications, services, or platforms, including APIs, service platforms, data systems, modular monoliths, or shared backend components.
- Experience modernizing a monolith or legacy backend architecture in production using modular approaches such as bounded contexts, package encapsulation, ports and adapters, service extraction, or event-driven boundaries.
- Experience building alignment through written proposals and decision records.
- Experience balancing customer outcomes, delivery speed, technical health, reliability, and long-term platform investment.
- Experience mentoring engineers and shaping standards through code review, documentation, and practice.
- Production experience with AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows, including improving team adoption of those workflows.
Benefits
- All roles are remote, with location-based eligibility requirements possible.
- Benefits support health, finances, and well-being.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Team Member Resource Groups.
- Equity compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Growth and Development Fund.
- Parental Leave.
About GitLab
GitLab builds a DevSecOps platform that unifies source code management, CI/CD, and security with AI-assisted workflows for software teams and enterprises. It sells cloud-hosted and self-managed subscriptions, plus enterprise features and support. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, GitLab is a public company listed on NASDAQ and is widely used by large enterprises, including many in the Fortune 100.