GitLab - Staff Backend Engineer (Go), Continuous Delivery

• Deep professional experience building backend services in Go, with a track record in high-scale production environments. • Demonstrated expertise in distributed systems design, including durable workflow execution, state persistence, and event-driven architectures. • Extensive experience leading or contributing to release orchestration, deployment automation, or continuous delivery systems at scale. • Extensive hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes at production scale, including progressive delivery patterns such as blue/green and canary deployments. • Strong familiarity with GitOps workflows and tools in that ecosystem. • Experience with policy-based governance in software delivery systems. • Proven ability to translate complex architecture into clear, executable engineering work across a team. • Demonstrated ability to incorporate AI tools into daily engineering workflows to drive efficiency and quality. • 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. • Experience with AI engineering or building AI-integrated product features. • Ruby on Rails experience. • The GitLab CD team is a newly formed group within the Deploy stage. The team will be primarily Go engineers, with Ruby on Rails and frontend engineers joining as the product matures. You will work closely with adjacent teams across Verify, Runner, and Infrastructure, building in a collaborative, async-first environment where engineers take real ownership of outcomes. This is a rare opportunity to define the technical foundation of a high-visibility product area inside an established company operating at significant scale. • How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees • Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being • Flexible Paid Time Off • Team Member Resource Groups • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Growth and Development Fund • Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application. • Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process. • Country Hiring Guidelines: