Staff Backend Engineer, Developer Experience – Ruby
GitLab
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🏈 Anywhere in North America
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Lead
About the role
- Provide hands-on engineering contributions and technical leadership across six Developer Experience teams, jumping in to unblock critical work or accelerate high-impact initiatives
- Partner with engineering teams across GitLab to identify pain points, gather feedback, and translate day-to-day frustrations into actionable improvements for the Developer Experience roadmap
- Help us modernize our testing to support GitLab's growth—ensuring engineers have fast, reliable tools that catch issues early without slowing them down
- Reduce merge and CI friction by building workflows that deliver fast, actionable feedback—helping engineers iterate confidently and ship faster
- Collaborate with Platform, Product, and Infrastructure teams to identify and eliminate the architectural and process friction that slows down development
- Foster a culture of continuous learning, inclusion, and improvement—where great developer experience is a shared value across the organization
Requirements
- Deep experience with developer tooling, DevEx strategies, and testing frameworks at scale
- Experience leading platform or transformation initiatives across multiple teams
- Proven ability to influence without authority and collaborate across functions
- Familiarity with DevOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in a remote-first environment
- A product mindset with a passion for empowering developers
- Alignment with GitLab values, especially collaboration, iteration, and transparency.
Benefits
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- All remote, asynchronous work environment
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental leave
- Home office support
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
developer toolingDevEx strategiestesting frameworksDevOps workflowsCI/CD pipelines
Soft skills
technical leadershipcollaborationinfluence without authoritystrong written communicationstrong verbal communicationcontinuous learninginclusionimprovementproduct mindset