Staff Backend Engineer, Events Platform
Technical leader building and scaling GitLab’s backend events and messaging platform, with responsibility for distributed systems architecture, reliability, migration, and team mentorship. Requires deep Go experience in high-scale production environments and strong expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, deployment automation, and event-driven systems.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead technical execution on the CD platform by decomposing complex architectural designs into well-scoped, deliverable work and driving the team to ship with quality and confidence.
- Solve high-complexity engineering problems and provide architectural feedback that shapes system evolution.
- Set and maintain the technical bar through code review, mentorship, and example.
- Mentor engineers at all levels.
- Represent the team in cross-functional engineering discussions and contribute to technical proposals and architectural documents.
- Participate in on-call rotations to help ensure GitLab.com availability targets are met.
Requirements
- Deep professional experience building backend services in Go in high-scale production environments.
- Expertise in distributed systems design, including durable workflow execution, state persistence, and event-driven architectures.
- Extensive experience with release orchestration, deployment automation, or continuous delivery systems at scale.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes at production scale, including blue/green and canary deployments.
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows and related tools.
- Experience with policy-based governance in software delivery systems.
- Ability to translate complex architecture into clear, executable engineering work across a team.
- Ability to incorporate AI tools into daily engineering workflows.
- 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 Have
- Experience with AI engineering or building AI-integrated product features.
- Ruby on Rails experience.
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Team member resource groups
- Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
- Growth and development fund
- Parental leave
Skills
Go, Distributed Systems, Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps, Event-Driven Architecture, Continuous Delivery, Release Orchestration, Blue-Green Deployment, Canary Deployment, Ruby on Rails, Ai Engineering
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