Staff Backend Engineer

🔥 14 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

👻 Ghost score 10%

What it means: how likely this posting is sitting open without active hiring.How to read it: 60% or higher means we think this is a ghost. Lower scores are less of a worry.How we score it: age, reposts, open roles vs team size, how fast jobs close, and whether pay is listed.Fine print: an estimate from public data, not a judgment of the company. Real jobs can score high, so treat it as a hint, not a fact.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Set Up Email Alert For New Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

GitLab

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Consulting • Marketing • Artificial Intelligence

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 technical leadership across the team and adjacent teams • Solve the highest-scope and most complex problems in the area • Lead large, cross-cutting backend initiatives • Drive modular architecture strategy and define engineering standards • Work with Product, Frontend, Infrastructure, Security, Data, Engineering Managers, and engineers across product groups • Lead technical design and delivery of backend initiatives spanning teams • Identify and remove systemic bottlenecks across product and infrastructure groups • Modernize monolith and legacy backends toward modular, reusable, independently operated systems • Define standards for APIs, contracts, compatibility, schema evolution, testing, security, performance, observability, operability, and maintainability • Establish dependency management, data ownership, eventing, failure isolation, service maturity, and operational documentation patterns • Establish Go service patterns and Kubernetes operating practices; guide Rust adoption where appropriate • Participate in on-call and incident response • Act as a technical escalation point during complex incidents • Partner with Product and Engineering leadership on platform roadmaps and investment trade-offs • Mentor Senior and Intermediate engineers • Lead adoption of AI-assisted and agentic workflows and define quality, security, privacy, and operational guardrails

🎯 Requirements

• Sustained record of technical leadership across more than one team or a broad product area • Deep backend architecture and production experience in complex applications, services, or platforms • Experience scaling or governing APIs, service platforms, data systems, modular monoliths, or shared backend components • Experience modernizing a monolith or legacy backend architecture in production • Experience with modular architecture such as bounded contexts, package encapsulation, ports and adapters, service extraction, event-driven boundaries, or equivalent • Ability to create alignment through clear written proposals and decision records • Ability to balance customer outcomes, delivery speed, technical health, reliability, and long-term platform investment • Experience mentoring engineers and shaping standards through code review, documentation, and example • Production experience with AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows • Helpful experience with Go services and APIs at scale • Helpful experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native operations • Helpful experience with Rust adoption or production ownership • Helpful experience with Ruby/Rails modularization and large-monolith modernization • Helpful experience with PostgreSQL scaling, data partitioning, queues, messaging, or distributed systems • Helpful experience with security-sensitive product or software supply chain engineering • Helpful experience across SaaS, single-tenant, self-managed, or air-gapped deployment constraints

🏖️ 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 • Remote-first, asynchronous organization