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Staff Backend Engineer, Core DevOps at Gitlab. Location Information: United States. GitLab Inc. is a company based on the GitLab open-source project. GitLab is a community project to which over 1,000 people worldwide have contributed. We are an active participant in this community, trying to serve its needs and lead by example. We have one . vision. : everyone can contribute to all digital content, and our mission is to change all creative work from read-only to read-write so that everyone can contribute.. We . value.  results, transparency, sharing, freedom, efficiency, frugality, collaboration, directness, kindness, diversity, boring solutions, and quirkiness. If these values match your personality, work ethic, and personal goals, we encourage you to visit our . primer.  to learn more. Open source is our culture, our way of life, our story, and what makes us truly unique.. Avoid the . confidence gap. ; you do not have to match all the listed requirements exactly to apply. Our hiring process is described in more detail in our . hiring handbook. .. Work remotely from anywhere in the world. Curious to see what that looks like? Check out our . remote manifesto. .. Lead the technical design and delivery of backend initiatives that span teams, and identify and remove systemic bottlenecks across product and infrastructure groups.. Drive modular backend, service, data, and platform architecture, including modernization of the monolith and legacy backends while preventing fragmentation and service sprawl.. Define and improve standards for application programming interfaces, 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 to the production estate, and guide Rust adoption where it addresses systems, security, performance, or supply-chain needs.. Take part in on-call and incident response for systems your teams own, serve as a technical escalation point during complex incidents, and turn lessons from incidents into lasting improvements.. Partner with Product and Engineering leadership on platform roadmap decisions and investment trade-offs.. Mentor Senior and Intermediate engineers, reduce technical debt, build reusable patterns that improve team throughput, and lead adoption of artificial intelligence-assisted and agentic workflows with quality, security, privacy, and operational guardrails.. A record of leading technical work across more than one team or a broad product area.. Deep backend architecture and production experience with complex applications, services, or platforms, including application programming interfaces, service platforms, data systems, modular monoliths, or shared backend components.. Experience modernizing a monolith or legacy backend architecture in production and using modular approaches such as bounded contexts, package encapsulation, ports and adapters, service extraction, or event-driven boundaries.. Experience building alignment through clear written proposals and decision records so teams document, understand, and adopt technical decisions.. Experience making trade-offs among 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 artificial intelligence-assisted or agentic engineering workflows, including improving how a team adopts them.. Pay range:. $152K - $259K