GitLab
Staff Backend Engineer, Developer Experience
$132K–$282K
Remote, Canada +2 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Apr 7, 2026
- Location
- Remote, Canada
Remote, United Kingdom
Remote, US
About the job
Leads development of GitLab’s internal developer experience platform and Kubernetes-based workflows, improving how engineering teams build, test, deploy, and operate services.
What you'll do
- Lead a team and set the roadmap for developer tooling and Kubernetes-based workflows.
- Design reusable service onboarding, deployment, and reproducible development and test environments.
- Set engineering standards, coach engineers, and partner across teams to improve platform adoption and reliability.
What they ask for
- Deep experience building developer tooling, DevEx platforms, testing frameworks, or CI/CD systems at scale.
- Strong hands-on Go experience designing, implementing, testing, and operating production services or platform tooling.
- Practical production Kubernetes experience, including deployment lifecycle, Helm, multi-cluster contexts, and third-party operators and custom resources.
- Demonstrated technical leadership and ability to influence across engineering, infrastructure, security, and product functions.
Nice to have
- Experience contributing to Ruby-based systems.
- Experience authoring a Kubernetes controller or operator.
Pay
$131,600 — $282,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Go, Ruby, Kubernetes, Helm, CloudNativePG, cert-manager
AI focus
GitLab expects all team members to incorporate AI into their daily workflows as a productivity multiplier; no specific AI development work is described.
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