Role overview

Staff Backend Engineer (Go), Continuous Delivery

Requirements and responsibilities

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What you'll do

  • Lead technical execution on the CD platform: decompose complex architectural designs into well-scoped, deliverable work and drive the team to ship with quality and confidence.
  • Solve high-complexity engineering problems and contribute architectural feedback that shapes how the system evolves.
  • Set and maintain the technical bar across the codebase through code review, mentorship, and example.
  • Mentor engineers at all levels, helping them grow their technical capabilities and navigate difficult problems.
  • Represent the CD team in cross-functional engineering discussions and contribute to written technical proposals and architectural documents.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to help ensure GitLab.com availability targets are met.

What you'll bring

  • Deep professional experience building backend services in Go, with a track record in high-scale production environments.
  • Demonstrated expertise in distributed systems design, including durable workflow execution, state persistence, and event-driven architectures.
  • Extensive experience leading or contributing to release orchestration, deployment automation, or continuous delivery systems at scale.
  • Extensive hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes at production scale, including progressive delivery patterns such as blue/green and canary deployments.
  • Strong familiarity with GitOps workflows and tools in that ecosystem.
  • Experience with policy-based governance in software delivery systems.
  • Proven ability to translate complex architecture into clear, executable engineering work across a team.
  • Demonstrated ability to incorporate AI tools into daily engineering workflows to drive efficiency and quality.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a bias toward async, documentation-first practices.
  • Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational judgment and a constructive approach to ambiguity.

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
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