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Senior Backend Engineer, India

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3 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and ship moderate to complex backend features with minimal guidance.
  • Make architectural trade-offs among modular-monolith code, shared components, and independently operated services.
  • Define backend standards for code style, maintainability, testing, APIs, security, performance, and operational readiness.
  • Diagnose and prevent performance and reliability issues at scale and participate in incident response.
  • Mentor associate and intermediate engineers, remove technical blockers, and contribute to code and design reviews.
  • Use AI in production engineering workflows, evaluate its effectiveness, and coach others on responsible use.
  • Collaborate with product managers and designers to shape requirements and technical direction.

Requirements

  • Strong command of backend architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance tuning in complex product or service environments.
  • Proficiency in modern backend languages and a deep understanding of systems programming.
  • Experience designing or evolving modular backend boundaries, bounded contexts, and migration-safe architectures.
  • Ability to lead through technical influence, judgment, and clear written communication.
  • Proven experience building or operating agentic systems in production, including loops, tool use, and error-handling strategies.
  • Helpful experience includes high-throughput distributed systems, concurrency, profiling, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, schema evolution, partitioning, large-scale modular monoliths, event-driven systems, public technical communication, open-source maintenance, or developer-focused SaaS.

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 with asynchronous collaboration; location eligibility may apply in India.

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About GitLab

1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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