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Staff Backend Engineer (Go), Continuous Delivery
Remote DevOps Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
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Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalLead
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
India
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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