Staff Backend Engineer – Developer Experience

🕒 April 7

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GitLab

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise • SaaS

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform, offering tools for automated software delivery, security, and compliance throughout the software development lifecycle. It provides solutions across areas such as AI-assisted development, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), source code management, and vulnerability management. GitLab aims to simplify and accelerate software delivery by uniting development, security, and operations on a unified platform. It is particularly recognized for its AI code assistants and has been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms, making it a preferred choice for many enterprises.

📋 Description

• Provide hands-on engineering contributions and technical leadership across six Developer Experience teams, jumping in to unblock critical work or accelerate high-impact initiatives • Partner with engineering teams across GitLab to identify pain points, gather feedback, and translate day-to-day frustrations into actionable improvements for the Developer Experience roadmap • Help us modernize our testing to support GitLab's growth—ensuring engineers have fast, reliable tools that catch issues early without slowing them down • Reduce merge and CI friction by building workflows that deliver fast, actionable feedback—helping engineers iterate confidently and ship faster • Collaborate with Platform, Product, and Infrastructure teams to identify and eliminate the architectural and process friction that slows down development • Foster a culture of continuous learning, inclusion, and improvement—where great developer experience is a shared value across the organization

🎯 Requirements

• Deep experience with developer tooling, DevEx strategies, and testing frameworks at scale • Experience leading platform or transformation initiatives across multiple teams • Proven 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 with a passion for empowering developers • Alignment with GitLab values, especially collaboration, iteration, and transparency.

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being • Flexible Paid Time Off • Team Member Resource Groups • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Growth and Development Fund • Parental leave • Home office support