# Staff Backend Engineer, AMER at GitLab

- Company: GitLab
- What the company does: The intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling teams and agents to ship trusted software at enterprise scale. Backed by General Catalyst and Khosla.
- Company website: https://about.gitlab.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote, Canada; Remote, United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-17
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/8773381002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/gitlab-staff-backend-engineer-amer/

## About the role

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across your team and adjacent teams, solving the highest-scope and most complex problems in your area. You will lead large, cross-cutting backend initiatives, drive our modular architecture strategy, and define the standards that let teams move faster without compromising quality, security, reliability, or operability.

## What they're looking for

- Go services and APIs at scale
- Kubernetes and cloud-native operations, including deployment, scaling, observability, rollback, and production readiness
- Rust adoption or production ownership for systems, security, performance, or platform components
- Ruby/Rails modularization and large-monolith modernization
- PostgreSQL scaling, data partitioning, queues, messaging, or distributed systems
- Security-sensitive product or software supply chain engineering

Tags: Engineering