Senior Backend Engineer, Platform Enablement Remote at GitLab

About the Role

As a Senior Backend Engineer, Performance Enablement, you will make performance testing and analysis easier for engineering teams to adopt and own. You will build platforms, tooling, and artificial intelligence assisted workflows that help teams identify performance risks during development and before they roll changes out to production. We are transitioning from a hands-on consulting model to a self-service model. Service teams will own their performance tests, analysis, thresholds, and evidence, while 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 significant scope and influence. You will help shape how Performance Enablement supports engineering teams, using artificial intelligence thoughtfully to accelerate design, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and automation.

What You Will Do

• Build and evolve reusable backend platforms and tooling specifically for performance testing and analysis.
• Create self-service workflows, documentation, templates, diagnostics, and artificial intelligence skills designed to reduce the need for bespoke support from the team.
• Utilize development practices that apply artificial intelligence to accelerate implementation, testing, debugging, and technical documentation.
• Influence engineering teams to make performance testing an integrated part of the normal development and release preparation process.
• Transform 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 Will Bring

• Proven experience building backend or platform software.
• Experience developing internal platforms or developer facing tooling.
• Experience partnering with development teams to improve their day to day workflows.
• Experience utilizing development practices that apply artificial intelligence across the entire software lifecycle.
• Experience with software performance, including performance analysis, optimization, benchmarking, or leading performance related improvements.
• Practical experience with Kubernetes, k6, and Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or similar cloud infrastructure.
• Experience building durable solutions that support broad adoption through systems thinking.
• The ability to communicate clearly in writing and influence teams even without direct authority.

About the Team

Performance Enablement is a part of Platform Enablement within Developer Experience and Infrastructure Platforms. Our mission is to help GitLab teams embed performance into the entire software lifecycle. We aim to make performance a shared responsibility of the service owning teams while serving as a strong platform and center of expertise when assistance is needed. We operate asynchronously, collaborate broadly across research and development, and focus on building capabilities that scale beyond individual team engagements.

Compensation and Location

The base salary range for this role at its listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range reflects the base salary rate in locations throughout the US. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. For sales roles, incentive pay up to 100% of the offered base salary is also eligible. The United States Salary Range is listed between $156,800 and $235,200 USD.

GitLab Benefits

GitLab supports its full time employees with benefits designed 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
• Parental Leave

GitLab is hiring team members globally. All of our roles are remote, though some may have specific location based eligibility requirements. Candidates are encouraged to apply and let our recruiters assess their application, as we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience.