GitLab

Staff Backend Engineer, Developer Experience

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3 days ago
Remote, United States +2 moreStaff+

Base Salary

$132k - $282k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Provide hands-on engineering contributions and technical leadership across six Developer Experience teams.
  • Partner with engineering teams to identify pain points and translate feedback into roadmap improvements.
  • Modernize testing systems to provide fast, reliable feedback at scale.
  • Build workflows that reduce merge and CI friction and improve developer iteration speed.
  • Identify and eliminate architectural and process bottlenecks with Platform, Product, and Infrastructure teams.
  • Promote continuous learning, inclusion, and improvement across GitLab’s engineering organization.

Requirements

  • Deep experience with developer tooling, DevEx strategies, and testing frameworks at scale.
  • Experience leading platform or transformation initiatives across multiple teams.
  • Ability to influence without authority and collaborate across functions.
  • Familiarity with DevOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills in a remote-first environment.
  • A product mindset and passion for empowering developers.
  • Alignment with GitLab values, especially collaboration, iteration, and transparency.

Benefits

  • Remote work is available for all roles, subject to location-based eligibility requirements.
  • Health, financial, and well-being benefits are provided for full-time employees.
  • Flexible paid time off is available.
  • Team Member Resource Groups are available.
  • Equity compensation and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan are offered.
  • A Growth and Development Fund is provided.
  • Parental leave is available.

Tech Stack

GoRuby

Categories

GitLab

About GitLab

1,001-5,000 employees

GitLab is the Intelligent Orchestration Platform where software teams and their AI agents stay in flow to amplify their capacity for innovation. Together, they automate repetitive tasks to plan, build, secure, test, deploy and maintain software. With GitLab, software teams spend less time on coordination overhead and more time on the next big idea. GitLab Duo Agent Platform provides AI agents that automate tasks across the software lifecycle. Agents handle code generation, security analysis, code review, CI/CD troubleshooting, and custom workflows — while teams maintain control through enterprise governance. Build what's next with us. Explore open roles and join our talent community: https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/

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