13 hours ago
Remote, PolandSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and ship moderate to complex backend features with minimal guidance.
- Influence team objectives, technical direction, long-range goals, and product requirements.
- Define standards for backend style, maintainability, testing, APIs, and operational readiness.
- Mentor associate and intermediate engineers and remove technical blockers through code and design reviews.
- Diagnose and prevent performance and reliability issues, participate in incident response, and act as a technical owner.
- Experiment with and integrate agentic AI into production engineering workflows and coach others on responsible use.
- Build and maintain GitLab.com’s application-level rate-limiting framework for defining, counting, and observing tenant controls.
Requirements
- Strong command of backend architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance tuning in complex product or service environments.
- Proficiency in modern backend languages and strong understanding of systems programming, with the ability to learn and adapt across languages.
- Experience designing or evolving modular backend boundaries, bounded contexts, and migration-safe architectures.
- Ability to lead through influence, technical judgment, asynchronous written communication, and independent execution.
- Experience building or operating agentic AI 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 work; GitLab states that all roles are remote, subject to country-specific 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.