Senior Staff Backend Engineer — Remote

Jackalope Digital LLC; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity compensation

Growth & Development Fund

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to provide technical leadership across teams, drive modular architecture, and define standards for scalable, secure systems. You will mentor engineers and lead AI-assisted workflows in a remote-first environment.

You will collaborate with Product, Frontend, and Security to shape platform roadmaps while maintaining reliability, security, and operability at scale.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading backend architecture in production systems.
• Experience building modular, scalable backends and services.
• Strong ability to influence without formal authority.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-cutting backend initiatives spanning multiple teams.
• Drive modular architecture and modernization of monoliths.
• Define standards for APIs, contracts, testing, security, and operability.
• Mentor engineers and promote reusable patterns across teams.
• Lead AI-adoption efforts with governance for safety and privacy.

Skills

Cross-team leadership

Backend architecture

Go services

Kubernetes

Rust

Tools

Go

Kubernetes

Ruby/Rails

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to provide technical leadership across teams, drive modular architecture, and define standards for scalable, secure systems. You will mentor engineers and lead AI-assisted workflows in a remote-first environment.

You will collaborate with Product, Frontend, and Security to shape platform roadmaps while maintaining reliability, security, and operability at scale.