Senior Backend Engineer

at GitLab

📍 Bengaluru, India

USD 139,200-235,200 per year

SENIOR

✅ Remote

Tech Stack
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AI API @ 7 Agentic Systems @ 4 ClickHouse @ 4 Communication @ 6 Distributed Systems Kubernetes PostgreSQL @ 4 Profiling Security

Details

GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. The role involves designing, implementing, and evolving product capabilities while solving high-scope backend problems and influencing technical and product direction. You will work across product, frontend, infrastructure, data, and security boundaries in a high-scale, global product environment.

Responsibilities

Design and ship moderate to complex backend features with minimal guidance.
Make pragmatic architectural choices between modular-monolith code, shared components, and independently operated services.
Define and promote backend standards for style, maintainability, testing, APIs, security, availability, performance, and operational readiness.
Diagnose and prevent performance and reliability issues at scale.
Participate in incident response and act as a technical owner when appropriate.
Mentor associate and intermediate engineers, remove technical blockers, and improve team delivery through code and design reviews.
Use AI in production engineering work, evaluate its effectiveness, and coach others on responsible, high-judgment use.
Collaborate with product managers and designers to shape requirements and ensure technical decisions deliver user value.

Requirements

Strong command of backend architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance tuning in a complex product or service environment.
Proficiency in modern backend languages and a deep understanding of systems programming.
Experience designing or evolving modular backend boundaries, bounded contexts, and migration-safe architectures.
Ability to lead through influence, technical judgment, and clear written communication.
Proven experience building or operating agentic systems in production, including architecting loops, tool use, and error-handling strategies for reliability at scale.

Helpful Experience

High-throughput distributed systems, concurrency, or profiling.
Containerized production operations, such as Kubernetes.
Database performance knowledge, including PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, schema evolution, and partitioning.
Large-scale modular monoliths or event-driven systems.
Public technical communication, open-source maintenance, or experience with developer-focused SaaS.

Work Environment

GitLab operates as a remote-first, asynchronous organization. All roles are remote, although some roles may have location-based eligibility requirements.

Compensation and Benefits

The listed United States base salary range is $139,200–$235,200 USD. The range does not include bonuses, equity, or benefits. Benefits include flexible paid time off, equity compensation and an employee stock purchase plan, a growth and development fund, parental leave, and health, financial, and well-being support.