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Senior Backend Engineer, Core DevOps: Container Registry
Remote, Canada +3 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Location
- Remote, Canada
Remote, United States
Canada
United States of America
About the job
Designs and evolves backend capabilities for GitLab’s Container Registry, shaping architecture and improving the reliability, performance, and quality of a global product.
What you'll do
- Design and ship complex backend features and guide technical direction and backend standards.
- Diagnose and prevent reliability and performance issues; participate in incident response and act as a technical owner where appropriate.
- Mentor engineers and integrate, assess, and promote responsible AI use in production engineering workflows.
What they ask for
- Strong command of backend architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance tuning.
- 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.
- Proven experience building or operating agentic systems in production, including loops, tool use, and error handling for reliability at scale.
Pay
$1 — $2 USD (base salary)
AI focus
Build or operate agentic systems in production and use AI in engineering workflows, evaluating effectiveness and coaching responsible use.
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