GitLab
Senior Backend Engineer(Go), Continuous Delivery
Remote DevOps Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedRecently added
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
India
Role overview
Senior Backend Engineer(Go), Continuous Delivery
Requirements and responsibilities
Readable role content extracted into sections for faster review.
What you'll do
- Design and develop features for the CD platform that are secure, well-tested, and high-performance, with a focus on distributed systems architecture in Go.
- Take end-to-end ownership of features from design through implementation, code review, deployment, and iterative refinement.
- Contribute to architectural decisions on a greenfield codebase, partnering with the Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer to assess feasibility and scope.
- Advocate for product quality, security, and performance improvements with impact across the team, and help define standards through active code review.
- Provide mentorship to junior and intermediate engineers, helping them grow and remove blockers to their autonomy.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners — Product Management, UX, adjacent engineering teams — to deliver against product commitments.
- Participate in on-call rotations to assist with troubleshooting and urgent engineering issues.
What you'll bring
- Significant professional experience building backend services in Go, applying Go best practices in production environments.
- Demonstrated ability to design and build scalable, distributed systems — particularly those involving durable workflow execution, state persistence, and replay patterns.
- Experience building or contributing to release orchestration, deployment automation, or continuous delivery systems at scale.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production, including deploying and operating services across diverse environments.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes deployment patterns and progressive delivery strategies such as blue/green and canary deployments.
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows and tools in that ecosystem.
- Experience with event-driven architectures and policy-based governance in building reliable, enterprise-grade delivery systems.
- Demonstrated ability to incorporate AI tools into daily engineering workflows to drive efficiency and deliver higher quality outcomes.
- Strong communication skills: able to clearly convey complex technical and architectural problems, achieve consensus with peers, and collaborate effectively in an async-first, globally distributed environment.
- Self-motivated and self-managing, with a positive, solution-oriented mindset and the ability to thrive in a fully remote organization.
Nice to haves
- Experience with AI engineering or building AI-integrated product features.
- Ruby on Rails experience.
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
Similar roles
Keep a backup shortlist.
Docker, Kubernetes 1 accepted country
Software Engineer- Customer ExperienceOktaView role Docker, Kubernetes 1 accepted country
Senior Software EngineerOktaView role Docker, Kubernetes 37 accepted countries
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Auth0)OktaView role Kubernetes 3 accepted countries
Staff Software EngineerAmplitudeView role Stack
Use these tags to compare similar remote roles.
Location eligibility
Candidates should apply only when their profile country is listed here.
Your profileCountry not setSign in to check your country against this role.
Hiring flow
WithMira shows the role, then sends candidates to the company application.
1Check role fit, stack, and location eligibility in WithMira.
2Open the company application page from the tracked apply link.
3Save the role or subscribe for similar opportunities before leaving.