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Senior Backend Engineer, Development Health
from GitLab · read the original and apply on their site
Bangalore, India
Our take: The real work here is owning and modernising the internal automation, tooling, and data that keep a large engineering organisation shipping reliably, all done remote and documentation-first.
If you love owning a system end to end and making the plumbing engineers rely on quieter, faster, and better documented, this is your kind of work. You will be customer zero for GitLab, feeling the friction yourself and turning it into real fixes, while mentoring others and working with data to prove what actually helped. It suits someone who thrives remote, writes clearly, and finds satisfaction in modernising long-lived code safely.
Needs
- building backend software
- automating toil
- maintaining ruby codebases
- working with ci/cd
- analysing engineering data
- writing clear docs
Rewards
- owning systems end to end
- mentoring other engineers
- visible internal impact
- measurable improvements
- fixing flaky tests
Demands
- carrying production incidents
- working fully remote
- async communication
- working across teams
- self-directed delivery
Grows
- systems design
- mentoring engineers
- learning new domains
- working with AI agents
Values
- transparency
- craftsmanship
- inclusion and belonging
- iteration and pragmatism
Drains
- untangling legacy systems
- stakeholder status updates
- incident firefighting
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