GitLab
Staff Backend Engineer, Core DevOps
$153K–$259K
Remote, Canada +3 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Location
- Remote, Canada
Remote, United States
Canada
United States of America
About the job
Leads cross-team backend architecture and delivery for GitLab Core DevOps, modernizing legacy systems and setting standards for reliable, secure, maintainable software.
What you'll do
- Lead backend initiatives and modernize the monolith and legacy backends into modular systems.
- Set architecture and engineering standards, mentor engineers, and guide technical direction across teams.
- Support on-call and incident response, and lead adoption of AI-assisted and agentic workflows with appropriate guardrails.
What they ask for
- 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.
- Production experience modernizing a monolith or legacy backend architecture using modular approaches.
- Production experience with artificial intelligence-assisted or agentic engineering workflows, including improving team adoption.
Pay
$152,800 — $259,200 USD (base salary)
Tools
Go, Kubernetes, Rust
AI focus
Production use and team adoption of AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows, with quality, security, privacy, and operational guardrails.
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