Staff Fullstack Engineer, Data Products (Golang / Node)

Engg; United States; Remote; USD 153,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity Compensation & Stock Purchase

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

GitLab is hiring for a foundational engineering role in Data Products. You will own end-to-end platform systems, guiding architecture and delivery across multiple teams to build trusted data intelligence for developers and customers.

You will shape how data is ingested, modeled, and surfaced, collaborating with product, design, and backend teams to define roadmaps and ensure operational readiness across GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed.

Qualifications

• Experience influencing multiple engineering and product teams.
• Track record of delivering end-to-end platform features.
• Ability to design scalable data ingestion and graph models.

Responsibilities

• Architect how GitLab and third-party data is ingested and modeled.
• Lead integration with Jira, Zendesk, ServiceNow and other tools.
• Architect the Data Marketplace for Snowflake, Databricks and BigQuery.
• Publish observability data as OpenTelemetry and share APIs.
• Define operational readiness for GitLab deployments (all variants).
• Translate ambiguous problems into concrete roadmaps with teams.
• Mentor senior engineers and improve delivery velocity.

Skills

Staff-level leadership

Full-stack expertise

Go/Ruby/Node.js

Analytics & metrics

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Go

Ruby

Node.js

SQL

Job description

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

* Fortune 500 is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.

An overview of this role Data Products integrates GitLab and third-party SDLC data, and builds the dashboards, APIs, and data products that turn it into trusted, interoperable intelligence for customers and internal teams. This is a 0 to 1 team and we are hiring for a foundational engineering role. That means you bring technical leadership through ambiguity, helping figure out what to build, making the foundational design decisions, and keeping delivery moving while the picture is still forming. You own the full lifecycle of what ships and stand behind it.

What you'll bring Proven ability to influence as a Staff owning product or platform systems end to end across multiple engineering and product teams. High agency, i.e finds the owner, clarifies the path, makes the call, and keeps pushing until the work lands. Force multiplier and raise the people and the codebase around them Deep full-stack expertise, including strong proficiency in Go, Ruby and Node . Depth in at least one of analytics and metrics platforms, graph data systems, CDC and warehouse integration. Hands-on experience building production AI-powered tool orchestration. Experience operating multi-tenant systems across SaaS and self-managed deployment. Direct communicator who builds alignment across teams. Bias to write things down and make reasoning legible.

What you'll own Architect how GitLab and third-party data is ingested, modeled, and synced into the knowledge graph as a near-real-time graph of the development ecosystem. Lead integration with external systems for business context (Jira, observability tools, Zendesk, ServiceNow), indexed into the graph. Architect the Data Marketplace so customers consume GitLab data through Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery with no engineering dependencies. Publish GitLab observability as OpenTelemetry and broker the data-sharing APIs. Define operational readiness for everything the team ships across GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed. Translate an ambiguous 0 to 1 problem space into concrete, iterable roadmaps in partnership with Product, Design, and the graph backend team. Resolve cross-team dependencies across graph backend, AI Platform, and Infrastructure without escalating everything upward. Mentor senior and intermediate engineers through design reviews, pairing, and code review. Create organizational leverage through speed. You identify systemic bottlenecks, simplify processes, and design systems that dramatically improve execution velocity.

About the team Data Products work across three surfaces: Dashboard and Reporting Framework Builds AI-native dashboard components so customers and internal teams can see engineering health and GitLab's impact across DORA, VSA, AI Impact, SDLC trends, security, and quality, and launch their own custom dashboards on the same framework. Internal Ingestion Ingests third-party data into the GitLab and power tools like Knowledge Graph, building connectors so that signals from systems like Jira, Zendesk, ServiceNow, and observability tools become one queryable, near-real-time graph of the developer ecosystem. External Ingestion External makes GitLab and Knowledge Graph data consumable outside the product, through marketplace listings, data-sharing APIs and SDKs, and co-branded partner products. We are a new team in a highly ambiguous, high-impact space, and we need engineers who can create clarity while building, make practical tradeoffs, unblock cross-team dependencies, and keep pushing until meaningful customer value lands.

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity . Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary. United States Salary Range $152,800 - $259,200 USD

How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees

Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additi