Staff Backend Engineer, Core DevOps

GitLab · Canada; Remote · Remote-friendly

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Company
GitLab
Location
Canada; Remote
Salary
$152,800 — $259,200
Posted
September 18, 2026

About this job

An overview of this role As a Staff Backend Engineer on GitLab's Core DevOps team, you'll provide technical leadership across your team and adjacent teams. You'll lead large backend initiatives, guide the modernization of a large monolith into modular, reusable, appropriately independent systems, and set standards that help teams move faster without compromising quality, security, reliability, or operability. You'll work with Product, Frontend, Infrastructure, Security, Data, Engineering Managers, and engineers across product groups. You'll lead complex backend architecture, make product trade-offs, and influence technical direction without formal authority. GitLab is an open core software company that develops an artificial intelligence-powered DevSecOps platform.…

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