Staff Backend Engineer, India
GitLab
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GitLab is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer, India within its Engineering team in Bangalore, India. The details below summarise the employer's own posting; applications happen on GitLab's official careers channel, not on GetFirstJob.
What the work involves
- As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across your team and adjacent teams, solving the highest-scope and most complex problems in your area.
- You will lead large, cross-cutting backend initiatives, drive our modular architecture strategy, and define the standards that let teams move faster without compromising quality, security, reliability, or operability.
- This is a technical leadership role that combines deep backend expertise, systems judgment, product judgment, and influence across organizational boundaries.
What the employer asks for
- Cross-Team Technical Leadership: A sustained record of technical leadership across more than one team or a broad product area.
- Deep Architecture Experience: Deep backend architecture and production experience in complex applications, services, or platforms, including scaling or governing APIs, service platforms, data systems, modular monoliths, or shared backend components.
Pay, location and application
The listing does not disclose salary, so raise compensation early in the process. The role is in office in Bangalore, India. The employer's Greenhouse board shows this listing last updated on 2026-10-28; it was first seen and checked as open on 4 November 2026.
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