6 hours ago
Remote, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and evolve backend product capabilities for a high-scale global platform.
- Make architectural decisions across modular-monolith code, shared components, and independently operated services.
- Define backend standards for maintainability, testing, APIs, security, availability, performance, and operational readiness.
- Diagnose and prevent performance and reliability issues, participate in incident response, and act as a technical owner.
- Mentor associate and intermediate engineers, remove technical blockers, and contribute through code and design reviews.
- Use, evaluate, and promote responsible AI-assisted production engineering workflows.
Requirements
- Strong command of backend architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance tuning in complex product or service environments.
- Proficiency in modern backend languages and deep understanding of systems programming.
- Experience designing or evolving modular backend boundaries, bounded contexts, and migration-safe architectures.
- Ability to lead through technical influence, sound technical judgment, and clear written communication.
- Proven experience building or operating agentic systems in production, including architecting loops, tool use, and error-handling strategies for reliability at scale.
- GitLab welcomes candidates with varying levels of experience and does not require every listed qualification to be met.
Benefits
- Health, financial, and well-being benefits.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Team Member Resource Groups.
- Equity compensation and an employee stock purchase plan.
- Growth and Development Fund.
- Parental leave.
- Remote-first work arrangement; GitLab roles are remote, subject to location-based eligibility requirements.
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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.