Senior Backend Engineer, Core DevOps: Artifact Central - PST
GitLab · Remote, United States
About this role
**Senior Backend Engineer, Core DevOps: Artifact Central - PST** *GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps—helping teams ship better, more secure software faster.* ## About the role As a **Senior Backend Engineer**, you’ll design, implement, and evolve product capabilities by solving high-scope backend problems and influencing technical and product direction. You’ll improve the **quality, reliability, and performance** of systems, working across **product, frontend, infrastructure, data, and security** to make sound architectural trade-offs and communicate clearly in an asynchronous environment. ## Why you’ll love this role - **High Impact:** Shape the architecture of a global platform used by millions. - **Technical Agency:** Influence team objectives, technical direction, and long-range goals. - **Innovative Culture:** Experiment with and integrate **agentic AI** into production engineering workflows. - **Autonomy:** Thrive in a **remote-first, asynchronous** organization. - **User-Centric Collaboration:** Partner with PMs and designers to deliver real user value. ## What you’ll do - **Drive Technical Direction:** Design and ship moderate to complex backend features with minimal guidance; choose between modular-monolith, shared components, or independently operated services. - **Raise the Bar:** Advocate for quality, security, availability, and performance; define standards for style, maintainability, testing, APIs, and operational readiness. - **Mentor & Lead:** Mentor engineers, remove blockers, and improve delivery via code/design reviews. - **Operational Excellence:** Diagnose and prevent performance/reliability issues at scale; participate in incident response and act as a technical owner when needed. - **AI Integration:** Use AI in production engineering work; evaluate effectiveness and coach others on responsible, high-judgment use. - **On-Call Support:** Participate in on-call/operational support as required by the team’s ownership model. ## What you’ll bring - **Deep Backend Expertise:** Strong command of backend architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance tuning. - **Adaptability:** Proficiency in modern backend languages and systems programming; ability to learn and adapt. - **Architectural Judgment:** Experience evolving modular boundaries, bounded contexts, and migration-safe architectures. - **Influence:** Lead through technical judgment and clear written communication. - **Agentic AI Expertise:** Experience building/operating agentic systems in production (beyond prompt engineering) with reliable loops, tool-use, and error handling. - **Citizenship Requirement:** Due to customer requirements, you must be a **United States Citizen**. ## Compensation (US) **$139,200 — $174,000 USD** (base salary range for the listed level; bonuses/equity/benefits not included). ## Additional notes - GitLab welcomes candidates with varying experience levels. - Roles are **remote**, with potential location-based eligibility requirements. - GitLab is an equal opportunity workplace.
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