Staff Backend Engineer (Go), Continuous Delivery

What you'll do

• Lead technical execution on the CD platform: decompose complex architectural designs into well-scoped, deliverable work and drive the team to ship with quality and confidence.
• Solve high-complexity engineering problems and contribute architectural feedback that shapes how the system evolves.
• Set and maintain the technical bar across the codebase through code review, mentorship, and example.
• Mentor engineers at all levels, helping them grow their technical capabilities and navigate difficult problems.
• Represent the CD team in cross-functional engineering discussions and contribute to written technical proposals and architectural documents.
• Participate in on-call rotations to help ensure GitLab.com availability targets are met.

What you'll bring

• 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.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI engineering or building AI-integrated product features.
• Ruby on Rails experience.