Staff Backend Engineer, DevEx (Remote-First)

Ruby Developer; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock-P

Flexible Paid Time Off

Growth and Development Fund

Parental leave

Home office support

Job summary

GitLab is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer in the Developer Experience group to help us identify and improve the engineering experience across internal teams. You’ll split time between hands-on coding in Ruby and Go, designing scalable solutions, and helping every team deliver.

This highly visible role shifts culture toward a cohesive Developer Experience Platform strategy. You’ll drive technical leadership across six teams, tackle friction points, modernize testing, and streamline CI/CD to

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.

Responsibilities

• Drive Technical Excellence Across Teams: Provide hands-on engineering contributions and technical leadership across six Developer Experience teams, jumping in to unblock critical work or accelerate high-impact initiatives.
• Champion Engineering Needs: Partner with engineering teams across GitLab to identify pain points, gather feedback, and translate day-to-day frustrations into actionable improvements for the Developer Experience roadmap.
• Transform Testing at Scale: Help us modernize our testing to support GitLab's growth and ensure engineers have fast, reliable tools that catch issues early without slowing them down.
• Optimize CI/CD Pipelines: Reduce merge and CI friction by building workflows that deliver fast, actionable feedback and help engineers iterate confidently and ship faster.
• Break Down Systemic Bottlenecks: Collaborate with Platform, Product, and Infrastructure teams to identify and eliminate the architectural and process friction that slows down development.
• Shape Engineering Culture: Foster a culture of continuous learning, inclusion, and improvement, where great developer experience is a shared value across the organization.

Skills

Ruby

Go

DevEx strategies

Testing frameworks

Leadership across teams

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

GitLab is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer in the Developer Experience group to help us identify and improve the engineering experience across internal teams. You’ll split time between hands-on coding in Ruby and Go, designing scalable solutions, and helping every team deliver.

This highly visible role shifts culture toward a cohesive Developer Experience Platform strategy. You’ll drive technical leadership across six teams, tackle friction points, modernize testing, and streamline CI/CD to