Staff Backend Engineer, Developer Experience

GitLab
Canada, United Kingdom, United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Problem-solving","Ruby","Go","CI/CD","Testing frameworks","DevEx","Platform"]

Staff Backend Engineer in the Developer Experience group, you’ll contribute hands-on coding in Ruby and Go while leading cross-team initiatives to improve engineering experience, testing, and CI/CD at GitLab. You’ll work with six globally distributed teams to identify friction, design scalable solutions, and shape an overall Developer Experience Platform strategy that accelerates secure software delivery.

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GitLab
GitLab
4 months ago

Staff Backend Engineer, Developer Experience

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Job Summary

Staff Backend Engineer in the Developer Experience group, you’ll contribute hands-on coding in Ruby and Go while leading cross-team initiatives to improve engineering experience, testing, and CI/CD at GitLab. You’ll work with six globally distributed teams to identify friction, design scalable solutions, and shape an overall Developer Experience Platform strategy that accelerates secure software delivery.
Location: Canada, United Kingdom, United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Drive Technical Excellence Across Teams: Provide hands-on engineering contributions and technical leadership across six Developer Experience teams, unblocking critical work or accelerating high-impact initiatives.
  • •Champion Engineering Needs: Partner with engineering teams across GitLab to identify pain points, gather feedback, and translate day-to-day frustrations into actionable improvements for the Developer Experience roadmap.
  • •Transform Testing at Scale: Help modernize testing to support GitLab’s growth—ensuring engineers have fast, reliable tools that catch issues early without slowing them down.
  • •Optimize CI/CD Pipelines: Reduce merge and CI friction by building workflows that deliver fast, actionable feedback—helping engineers iterate confidently and ship faster.
  • •Break Down Systemic Bottlenecks: Collaborate with Platform, Product, and Infrastructure teams to identify and eliminate architectural and process friction that slows development.

Key Requirements

  • •Deep experience with developer tooling, DevEx strategies, and testing frameworks at scale
  • •Experience leading platform or transformation initiatives across multiple teams
  • •Proven ability to influence without authority and collaborate across functions
  • •Familiarity with DevOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines
  • •Strong written and verbal communication skills in a remote-first environment
Experience:DevOpsSoftware developmentOpen source
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipProblem-solvingRubyGoCI/CDTesting frameworksDevExPlatform
Languages:English
Tech Stack:RubyGoCI/CDLoggingDevelopment environments

Company Brief

GitLab
Provides a single application for the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, offering source code management, CI/CD, security, and collaboration tools to help teams deliver software faster and more securely.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 250M to 500M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2011
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