Senior Backend Engineer
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GitLabDevSecOps
Location: Remote, United KingdomFull-TimeSenior
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- PostgreSQLKubernetesClickhouseRESTful APIsDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Strong command of backend architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance tuning.
- Proficiency in modern backend languages and deep understanding of systems programming.
- Proven experience building or operating agentic AI systems in production.
- Experience designing or evolving modular backend boundaries and migration-safe architectures.
- Ability to lead through influence, technical judgment, and clear written communication.
- Experience with high-throughput distributed systems, concurrency, or profiling (preferred).
- Hands-on experience with containerized production operations like Kubernetes (preferred).
- Deep database performance knowledge, including PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, schema evolution, or partitioning (preferred).
- Background in large-scale modular monoliths or event-driven systems (preferred).
Responsibilities
- Design and ship moderate to complex backend features with minimal guidance, choosing between modular-monoliths, shared components, or services.
- Advocate for product quality, security, availability, and performance by defining backend standards.
- Mentor associate and intermediate engineers and remove technical blockers.
- Diagnose and prevent performance or reliability issues at scale.
- Participate in incident response and act as a technical owner for services.
- Integrate and evaluate AI in production engineering workflows to improve outcomes.
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