Staff Backend Engineer, Developer Experience

🕒 April 7

🌐 United States, Canada, +1 more countries – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 $131.6k - $282k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤝 Developer Relations (DevRel)

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GitLab

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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

• Work cross-functionally to identify and improve the engineering experience across GitLab’s internal engineering teams • Contribute hands-on code in Ruby and Go • Design scalable solutions across six Developer Experience teams • Identify and remove major development friction points • Provide hands-on engineering contributions and technical leadership across six Developer Experience teams • Partner with engineering teams to identify pain points, gather feedback, and translate frustrations into roadmap improvements • Modernize testing at scale with fast, reliable tools • Build CI/CD workflows that provide fast, actionable feedback • Collaborate with Platform, Product, and Infrastructure teams to eliminate architectural and process bottlenecks • Foster continuous learning, inclusion, and improvement 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