3 days ago
Remote, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define the team’s technical vision, multi-quarter roadmap, and technical priorities with the Engineering Manager.
- Design and build reusable platform capabilities for performance testing, analysis, reporting, and trend visibility.
- Convert early team engagement lessons into reusable tooling, documentation, and onboarding that enable independent adoption.
- Coordinate priorities and delivery timing with Developer Experience, Infrastructure Platforms, and product teams.
- Lead AI-first development practices, including AI skills and agent-assisted performance workflows.
- Mentor engineers and provide performance engineering and platform design guidance across multiple teams.
- Participate in on-call or operational support when required by the team’s ownership model.
Requirements
- Staff-level backend or platform engineering experience with responsibility for technical direction across teams.
- Track record of building and operating performance testing and analysis systems and diagnosing bottlenecks.
- Experience leading a performance enablement or platform function and driving adoption of internal tooling.
- Experience defining and delivering a multi-quarter technical strategy or roadmap with engineering leadership.
- AI-first development experience across the software lifecycle, including shaping team usage of AI.
- Hands-on experience with load and performance testing tools such as k6 or equivalent, Kubernetes, and AWS, GCP, or similar cloud infrastructure.
- Clear written and asynchronous communication skills, including explaining performance trade-offs to engineers and leadership.
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.
- Poland base salary range of zł 328,000–zł 492,000; the range excludes bonuses, equity, and benefits.
Tech Stack
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.