Senior Backend Engineer, India - GitLab

About the Role

As a Senior Backend Engineer at GitLab, you will design, implement, and evolve product capabilities while solving high-scope backend problems. You will move beyond assigned tasks to actively improve the quality, reliability, and performance of our systems, working across product, frontend, infrastructure, and security boundaries.

Why You’ll Love This Role

• High Impact: Shape the architecture of a global platform used by millions.
• Technical Agency: Influence team objectives and long-range technical goals.
• Innovative Culture: Integrate agentic AI into production engineering workflows.
• Autonomy: Thrive in a remote-first, asynchronous environment.
• User-Centric Collaboration: Partner with PMs and designers to deliver genuine value.

What You’ll Do

• Drive Technical Direction: Design and ship complex backend features, making pragmatic choices between modular-monolith code, shared components, or independent services.
• Raise the Bar: Define backend standards for style, maintainability, testing, APIs, and operational readiness.
• Mentor & Lead: Support associate and intermediate engineers through code and design reviews.
• Operational Excellence: Diagnose and prevent performance issues at scale; participate in incident response.
• AI Integration: Utilize AI in production engineering to improve outcomes and coach others on responsible use.

What You’ll Bring

• Deep Backend Expertise: Strong command of backend architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance tuning.
• Adaptability: Proficiency in modern backend languages and systems programming.
• Architectural Judgment: Experience evolving modular backend boundaries and migration-safe architectures.
• Influence: Ability to lead through technical judgment and clear written communication.
• Agentic AI Expertise: Proven experience building or operating agentic systems in production.

Helpful Experience

• High-throughput distributed systems, concurrency, or profiling.
• Containerized production operations (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Deep database performance knowledge (e.g., PostgreSQL, ClickHouse).
• Background in large-scale modular monoliths or event-driven systems.
• Public technical communication or open-source maintenance.

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave
• Comprehensive health and well-being support