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Staff Software Engineer - NLP
BackendRemote — Bangalore, India
Published on 2026-09-24
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About this role
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will provide technical leadership and lead complex backend initiatives. The role involves driving architecture strategy and maintaining quality across product and infrastructure teams, all while adopting AI-assisted workflows.
About the company
GitLab is a DevSecOps platform that brings source control, CI/CD, security, and project management into a single application. It helps engineering teams plan, build, secure, and ship software faster.
What you'll do
- Lead technical design and delivery of large backend initiatives
- Drive modular backend architecture and modernization efforts
- Define standards for APIs, security, and performance
- Establish patterns for dependency management and operational documentation
- Take part in on-call and incident response
- Mentor Senior and Intermediate engineers
- Lead team-level adoption of AI workflows
What we're looking for
- Record of technical leadership across teams
- Deep backend architecture experience
- Experience with modularization in production
- Ability to create alignment through documentation
- Strong product judgment
- Experience mentoring engineers
- Production experience with AI-assisted workflows
Nice to have
- Experience with Go services and APIs
- Kubernetes and cloud-native operations
- Rust adoption in production
- Ruby/Rails modernization experience
- PostgreSQL scaling and distributed systems
- Security-sensitive product engineering
Benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave