Staff Backend Engineer, India
GitLab Inc. (company site, opens in a new tab)RemoteDirect career pageEst. 45–90 LPA
Posted on 3 Sept
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About This Role
- Lead technical design and delivery of large, cross-cutting backend initiatives, including modernization of monolith toward modular architecture at scale.
- Own and drive backend architecture strategy, defining standards for APIs, testing, security, performance, and operational practices to prevent fragmentation and ensure quality.
- Provide technical leadership across teams without formal authority, including mentoring engineers and guiding adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows with safety guardrails.
Minimum Requirements
- Sustained technical leadership experience across multiple teams or broad product areas.
- Deep backend architecture and production experience with complex applications, services, or platforms; experience modernizing monolith or legacy backend architectures.
- Experience leading AI-assisted or agentic engineering workflows adoption in production.
- Work Experience Required: Not explicitly mentioned in the JD.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced in modular backend architecture at scale, including bounded contexts, package encapsulation, or service extraction methodologies.
- Strong written communication skills for influence without formal authority via proposals and decision records.
- Proven ability to balance product outcomes, delivery speed, technical health, reliability, and long-term platform investment with mentorship experience.