# Staff Backend Engineer, Events Platform

**Company:** [GitLab](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gitlab)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Go, Distributed Systems, Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps, Event-Driven Architecture, Continuous Delivery, Release Orchestration, Blue-Green Deployment, Canary Deployment, Ruby on Rails, Ai Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-08-11

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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