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Staff Backend Engineer, EMEA

GitLab · Remote, Poland

Posted 14 days ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
14 days
GitLab's roles stay open a median of 41 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of GitLab's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at GitLab
low
0 stale, 9 reposted of 238 open
Hiring momentum
338 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-17

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from GitLab's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for GitLab.

About this role

As a Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab, you will lead technical initiatives across teams, focusing on modernizing backend architecture and establishing standards for development practices. Your role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to drive modular architecture strategies and influence technical direction without formal authority. You will also mentor other engineers and lead the adoption of AI-assisted workflows, ensuring quality and security in production systems.

Our read on this posting3.4out of 5
benefits
3/5
freshness
4/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of GitLab as an employer.

What you need

  • Cross-Team Technical Leadership: A sustained record of technical leadership across more than one team or a broad product area.
  • Deep Architecture Experience: Deep backend architecture and production experience in complex applications, services, or platforms, including scaling or governing APIs, service platforms, data systems, modular monoliths, or shared backend components.
  • Modularization in Production: Experience modernizing a monolith or legacy backend architecture in production, and with modular architecture such as bounded contexts, package encapsulation, ports and adapters, service extraction, event-driven boundaries, or an equivalent approach.
  • Influence Without Authority: A strong ability to create alignment through clear written proposals and decision records, so decisions are documented, understood, and adopted without constant escalation.
  • Product Judgment: The ability to balance customer outcomes, delivery speed, technical health, reliability, and long-term platform investment.
  • Mentorship: Experience mentoring engineers and shaping standards through code review, documentation, and example.

Nice to have

  • 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.

What you get

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

Worth weighing

  • No specific salary details provided beyond the range for Poland.
  • The role emphasizes influence without formal authority, which may require strong communication skills.
  • The position involves leading modernization efforts, which could be challenging depending on the existing architecture.

Summarised from GitLab's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by GitLab on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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