Role overview

Staff Fullstack Engineer- Data Products

Requirements and responsibilities

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What you’ll do

  • Architect how GitLab and third-party data is ingested, modeled, and synchronized into the Knowledge Graph as a near-real-time graph of the development ecosystem.
  • Coordinate integration with external systems such as Jira, observability tools, Zendesk, and ServiceNow to add business context to data products.
  • Design the Data Marketplace so customers can consume GitLab data through Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery without engineering handoffs.
  • Publish GitLab observability data as OpenTelemetry and support the APIs used for data access.
  • Define operational readiness for the systems your team ships across GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed deployments.
  • Translate ambiguous product problems into practical technical plans and iterative roadmaps in partnership with Product, Design, and the graph backend team.
  • Resolve cross-team coordination with Graph Backend, AI Platform, and Infrastructure to keep delivery moving.
  • Mentor senior and intermediate engineers through design reviews, pairing, and code review.

What you’ll bring

  • Experience owning product or platform systems end to end across multiple engineering and product teams at the staff level.
  • Strong fullstack technical skills with proficiency in Go, Ruby, and Node.
  • Depth in at least one area such as reporting and metrics platforms, graph data systems, or data access and warehouse integrations including Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery.
  • Hands-on experience building production data ingestion, systems integrations, or data access capabilities.
  • Experience operating multi-tenant systems across both SaaS and self-managed environments.
  • Strong judgment in ambiguity, with the ability to make tradeoffs, create clarity, and move early-stage work forward.
  • Clear written communication skills, including architecture proposals and design records that help distributed teams make progress asynchronously.
  • A practical and proactive approach to collaboration, with transferable experience welcomed from adjacent platform, data, or product engineering backgrounds.

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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