Gitlab

Actively Hiring

Senior Backend Engineer

Remote - Poland

Full-time

Role Overview

As a Senior Backend Engineer on Tenant Controls, you'll design, implement, and evolve backend capabilities for a global platform that millions use.

About Gitlab

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.

Key Responsibilities

Design and ship moderate to complex backend features with minimal guidance.
Influence team objectives, technical direction, and long-range goals, partnering with product managers and designers.
Define backend standards for style, maintainability, testing, APIs, and operational readiness.
Mentor associate and intermediate engineers, remove technical blockers, and improve delivery practices.
Diagnose and prevent performance and reliability issues at scale, participate in incident response.
Experiment with and integrate agentic AI into production engineering workflows.

Requirements & Eligibility

Strong command of backend architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance tuning in a complex product or service environment.
Proficiency in modern backend languages and a deep understanding of systems programming.
Experience designing or evolving modular backend boundaries, bounded contexts, and migration-safe architectures.
Ability to lead through influence, technical judgment, and clear asynchronous written communication.
Experience building or operating agentic AI systems in production.

Required Skills & Tech

RubyAPIsPostgreSQLClickHouseKubernetesBackend Architecture