GitLab

Staff Backend Engineer, Developer Experience

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2 months 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 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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