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Staff Backend Engineer, Developer Experience at GitLab

Department: Platforms Engineering

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Compensation

$131,600 – $282,000/yr

Setup
Remote - Canada
Location
Plano, Texas
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

GitLab is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer in its Developer Experience group to lead developer tooling and internal platform capabilities for engineering teams. The role focuses on Kubernetes-based service onboarding, CI/CD and test environments, platform reliability, observability, reusable deployment patterns, and deterministic environment bring-up and teardown. It requires hands-on Go and Ruby experience, deep Kubernetes deployment lifecycle expertise, technical leadership across engineering, infrastructure, security, and product functions, and strong communication in a remote-first environment. The role is remote and offers a United States base salary range of $131,600 to $282,000 USD.

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