Staff Backend Engineer - Platform Architect Remote

GitLab Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab Inc. is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to provide technical leadership across teams, steer large backend initiatives, and drive modular architecture that scales to millions of users.

You will partner with Product, Frontend, Infrastructure, Security, Data, and Engineering Managers, mentor engineers, and shape platform roadmaps while applying AI-assisted workflows in a remote-first, asynchronous environment.

Qualifications

• Sustained technical leadership across multiple teams.
• Deep backend architecture and production experience.
• Experience modernizing monoliths toward modular architectures.
• Ability to influence without formal authority.
• Mentor engineers and reduce technical debt.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-cutting backend initiatives across teams.
• Own architecture strategy and modular design.
• Define APIs, contracts, testing, and observability standards.
• Establish shared patterns for data ownership and eventing.
• Participate in on-call and incident response.
• Lead AI adoption within teams.

Skills

Cross-Team Leadership

Backend architecture

Modular monoliths

Influence without authority

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Go

Kubernetes

Rust

Job description

GitLab Inc. is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to provide technical leadership across teams, steer large backend initiatives, and drive modular architecture that scales to millions of users.

You will partner with Product, Frontend, Infrastructure, Security, Data, and Engineering Managers, mentor engineers, and shape platform roadmaps while applying AI-assisted workflows in a remote-first, asynchronous environment.