Staff Backend Engineer (Remote-First, EMEA)

GitLab; Poland; On-site; PLN 328,000 - 492,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock-P

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to provide technical leadership across teams. You’ll drive modular architecture, modernization of monoliths, and high-scale backend initiatives while maintaining security, reliability, and operability.

You’ll mentor engineers, shape platform roadmaps with Product and Engineering leadership, and lead AI-assisted workflows, ensuring guardrails and production-readiness in a remote-first, async

Qualifications

• Proven technical leadership across multiple teams or broad product area.
• Deep backend architecture experience in complex applications, services, or platforms.
• Experience modernizing monoliths and designing modular backend systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and delivery of large backend initiatives spanning teams.
• Drive modular backend, service, data, and platform architecture modernization.
• Define and improve standards for APIs, contracts, testing, security, performance, and operability.

Skills

Cross-Team Leadership

Deep Architecture

Modularization

Influence Without Authority

Product Judgment

Mentorship

Agentic AI Leadership

Tools

Go services and APIs

Kubernetes

Rust

Ruby/Rails

PostgreSQL

Job description

GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to provide technical leadership across teams. You’ll drive modular architecture, modernization of monoliths, and high-scale backend initiatives while maintaining security, reliability, and operability.

You’ll mentor engineers, shape platform roadmaps with Product and Engineering leadership, and lead AI-assisted workflows, ensuring guardrails and production-readiness in a remote-first, async