Senior Backend Engineer — AI-Driven Platform (Remote)

GitLab; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Team Member Resource Groups

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, implement, and evolve backend capabilities at scale. You will work across product, infrastructure, data, and security boundaries to shape architecture and drive impact.

You will collaborate with PMs and designers, mentor engineers, and champion high quality, security, and performance. The role emphasizes remote-first, asynchronous collaboration and AI integration in production workflows.

Qualifications

• Deep backend expertise and ability to design scalable architectures.
• Experience with APIs, data systems, and performance optimization.
• Ability to influence technical direction and mentor engineers.
• Proven experience integrating AI into production systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship backend features with minimal guidance.
• Shape architecture across teams and improve system quality.
• Mentor associate and intermediate engineers and review designs.
• Champion security, reliability, and performance at scale.
• Integrate AI tooling into production engineering workflows.

Skills

Backend architecture

APIs

Data systems

Performance tuning

Architectural judgment

Team leadership

AI in production

Tools

Modern backend languages

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, implement, and evolve backend capabilities at scale. You will work across product, infrastructure, data, and security boundaries to shape architecture and drive impact.

You will collaborate with PMs and designers, mentor engineers, and champion high quality, security, and performance. The role emphasizes remote-first, asynchronous collaboration and AI integration in production workflows.