Remote Senior Backend Engineer - Performance Enablement

GitLab; United States; Remote; USD 157,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock-

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer, Performance Enablement, to simplify performance testing for engineering teams. You will build scalable backend platforms, create self-service workflows, and embed AI-assisted practices to accelerate development, testing, and documentation.

The team promotes an autonomous, broadly adopting capability that scales across multiple product areas. This role emphasizes collaboration with Orbit and Artifact Registry teams, delivering reusable tooling,

Qualifications

• Experience building backend or platform software.
• Experience building internal platforms or developer-facing tooling.
• Experience partnering with development teams to improve their day-to-day workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve reusable backend platforms and tooling for performance testing and analysis.
• Create self-service workflows, documentation, templates, diagnostics, and artificial intelligence skills that reduce the need for bespoke support.
• Use development practices that apply artificial intelligence to accelerate implementation, testing, debugging, and technical documentation.
• Influence engineering teams to make performance testing part of normal development and release preparation.
• Turn early hands-on engagements into generalized capabilities that many teams can adopt independently.
• Provide technical expertise for difficult performance questions, tooling enhancements, and new platform capabilities.

Skills

Backend development

Platform tooling

AI in software

Cross-team collaboration

Written communication

Tools

Kubernetes

k6

AWS

GCP

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer, Performance Enablement, to simplify performance testing for engineering teams. You will build scalable backend platforms, create self-service workflows, and embed AI-assisted practices to accelerate development, testing, and documentation.

The team promotes an autonomous, broadly adopting capability that scales across multiple product areas. This role emphasizes collaboration with Orbit and Artifact Registry teams, delivering reusable tooling,