Staff Backend Engineer, Core DevOps: CI/CD Artifact Management (PST)
GitLab · Remote, United States
About this role
**Staff Backend Engineer — Core DevOps: CI/CD Artifact Management (PST)** ## About the role As a Staff Backend Engineer on GitLab’s Core DevOps team, you’ll provide technical leadership across your team and adjacent teams. You’ll lead large backend initiatives, help modernize a large monolith into modular, reusable systems, and set standards that help teams move faster without compromising quality, security, reliability, or operability. You’ll collaborate with Product, Frontend, Infrastructure, Security, Data, Engineering Managers, and engineers across product groups—leading complex backend architecture and influencing technical direction without formal authority. ## What you’ll do - Lead technical design and delivery of backend initiatives spanning teams; identify and remove systemic bottlenecks across product and infrastructure. - Drive modular backend/service/data/platform architecture, modernizing the monolith and legacy backends while preventing fragmentation and service sprawl. - Define and improve standards for APIs/contracts, compatibility, schema evolution, testing, security, performance, observability, operability, and maintainability. - Establish patterns for dependency management, data ownership, eventing, failure isolation, service maturity, and operational documentation. - Establish Go service patterns and Kubernetes operating practices where they matter; guide Rust adoption where it addresses systems, security, performance, or supply-chain needs. - Participate in on-call and incident response for systems your teams own; act as a technical escalation point and turn incident learnings into lasting improvements. - Partner with Product and Engineering leadership on platform roadmap decisions and investment trade-offs. - Mentor Senior/Intermediate engineers; reduce technical debt; build reusable patterns that improve throughput. - Lead adoption of AI-assisted and agentic workflows with quality, security, privacy, and operational guardrails. - Take part in on-call or operational support where your team’s ownership model requires it. ## What you’ll bring - Proven record leading technical work across more than one team or a broad product area. - Deep backend architecture and production experience with complex applications/services/platforms (APIs, service platforms, data systems, modular monoliths, shared backend components). - Experience modernizing monoliths/legacy backends in production using modular approaches (bounded contexts, encapsulation, ports & adapters, service extraction, event-driven boundaries). - Ability to build alignment via clear written proposals and decision records. - Experience making trade-offs across customer outcomes, delivery speed, technical health, reliability, and long-term platform investment. - Experience mentoring engineers and shaping standards through code review, documentation, and practice. - Production experience with AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows. - **Due to customer requirements, you must be a United States Citizen.** ## About the team The Core DevOps team owns core repository capabilities—from Git command-line operations to web-based code exploration. They build features and platforms, improve existing capabilities, and enhance maintainability, accessibility, performance, and workflows for teams using AI-assisted development tools. ## United States salary range (base) **$152,800 — $259,200 USD** *Note: base salary range does not include bonuses, equity, or benefits.*
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