GitLab

Senior Backend Engineer, Platform Enablement

Work from home

Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.

United States only

Employer listed it 5 days ago · Added 5 days ago

First listed 5 days ago and still open.

Salary

$156,800 to $235,200

Location

United States only

Work style

Async

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Senior

Remote flexibility

Work from home

This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in United States. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.

What the employer says

Source listing states candidate location: "Remote, United States"
Job description states: "residents of the United States only. This range"

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About the role

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

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An overview of this role

As a Senior Backend Engineer, Performance Enablement, you'll make performance testing and analysis easier for engineering teams to adopt and own. You'll build platforms, tooling, guidance, and artificial intelligence-assisted workflows that help teams identify performance risks during development and before they roll changes out to production.

We're moving from a hands-on consulting model to a self-service model. Service teams own their performance tests, analysis, thresholds, and evidence. We provide the paved road, documentation, skills, and expert support for challenging problems and new capabilities.

This is a backend and platform engineering role with room to grow in scope and influence. You'll help shape how Performance Enablement supports engineering teams, using artificial intelligence thoughtfully to accelerate design, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and automation.

You'll support work such as:

Enabling modular feature teams, including Orbit and Artifact Registry, to run performance testing through their own development and continuous integration workflows

Building reusable performance tooling, including component-level testing, load testing, performance analysis, and artificial intelligence-assisted engineering skills

Improving performance results, reporting, and trend visibility so teams can make informed decisions from their own evidence

Establishing the documentation, templates, and guidance needed to expand self-service adoption across research and development

What you’ll do

Build and evolve reusable backend platforms and tooling for performance testing and analysis.

Create self-service workflows, documentation, templates, diagnostics, and artificial intelligence skills that reduce the need for bespoke support.

Use development practices that apply artificial intelligence to accelerate implementation, testing, debugging, and technical documentation.

Influence engineering teams to make performance testing part of normal development and release preparation.

Turn early hands-on engagements into generalized capabilities that many teams can adopt independently.

Provide technical expertise for difficult performance questions, tooling enhancements, and new platform capabilities.

What you’ll bring

Experience building backend or platform software.

Experience building internal platforms or developer-facing tooling.

Experience partnering with development teams to improve their day-to-day workflows.

Experience using development practices that apply artificial intelligence across the software lifecycle.

Requirements

·Experience building backend or platform software.
·Experience building internal platforms or developer-facing tooling.
·Experience partnering with development teams to improve their day-to-day workflows.
·Experience using development practices that apply artificial intelligence across the software lifecycle.
·Experience with software performance, such as performance analysis, optimization, benchmarking, or leading performance-related improvements.

Benefits

·Flexible Paid Time Off
·Team Member Resource Groups
·Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
·Growth and Development Fund

How to apply

1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
2Tailor your CV to the role at GitLab, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (Async).
3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.

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