Staff Backend Engineer - Developer Experience Platform

GitLab; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Flexible PTO

Employee Resource Groups

Equity Compensation & ESPP

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer in the Developer Experience group. You’ll help identify and remove friction across GitLab’s six distributed backend teams, while shaping the engineering experience and platform strategy.

Expect to split time between hands-on coding in Ruby and Go, designing scalable solutions, and guiding improvements to developer workflows, testing, and CI/CD practices within a remote-first culture.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Drive Technical Excellence Across Teams: Provide hands-on engineering contributions and technical leadership across six Developer Experience teams, unblocking critical work or accelerating high-impact initiatives.

Skills

DevEx strategies

Testing frameworks

Platform leadership

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps workflows

Remote communication

Product mindset

Influence without authority

Tools

Ruby

Go

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer in the Developer Experience group. You’ll help identify and remove friction across GitLab’s six distributed backend teams, while shaping the engineering experience and platform strategy.

Expect to split time between hands-on coding in Ruby and Go, designing scalable solutions, and guiding improvements to developer workflows, testing, and CI/CD practices within a remote-first culture.