Work on Gitaly to build and operate GitLab's Git data storage tier used by GitLab.com, self-managed customers, and GitLab Dedicated. Responsibilities include owning technical initiatives end-to-end, designing for distributed storage and high performance, partnering with cross-functional teams, improving engineering practices, and participating in on-call incident response. Required experience includes building and operating large-scale distributed or highly available systems and professional experience with Go or another backend/systems language; experience with Ruby, Git internals, gRPC, or Git server infrastructure is highly desirable.

Work primarily on backend engineering in Python (using LangChain and LangGraph) to develop secure, reliable, and scalable features across the Duo Workflow Service and the GitLab monolith. Collaborate with product, UX, frontend, and AI specialists; design GraphQL and REST APIs; improve automated testing; participate in Tier 2 on-call rotations; and contribute to observability and performance improvements. Remote role listed as Remote, United Kingdom.

GitLab is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer (remote; roles open for Poland and the United Kingdom). The role involves designing and evolving backend architecture and APIs, making architectural trade-offs, driving operational excellence (performance, reliability, incident response), mentoring junior engineers, and integrating agentic AI into production engineering. Helpful experience signals include high-throughput distributed systems, containerized production (e.g., Kubernetes), and deep database performance knowledge (PostgreSQL, ClickHouse).

Chainguard is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Customer Platform team (remote: US, UK, Canada). The role owns end-to-end design and implementation of backend systems (Go, REST/gRPC APIs) for entitlements, policy, and customer onboarding, serves as a technical interface to other engineering teams, and extends AI-driven product experiences. The posting highlights production Go experience, API and backend systems expertise, cloud-native familiarity (Kubernetes, cloud provider APIs), and mentorship/technical leadership responsibilities.

Chainguard seeks a Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and operate backend systems (Go, REST/gRPC) for entitlements, policies, and customer onboarding. The role involves cross-team integration, extending AI features into customer experiences, and providing technical leadership and mentorship for the Customer Platform team.

Work as a senior backend engineer building the backend flows, APIs, data models, and evaluation systems for GitLab's intent-to-code agentic workflows. The role uses Ruby on Rails and Python with PostgreSQL, GraphQL/REST, LLM APIs and the GitLab Duo Agent Platform in an all-remote, asynchronous team; responsibilities include leading features end-to-end, mentoring, and collaborating with product and design partners toward a public beta.

The role designs, builds, and maintains backend services and APIs that support GitLab's go-to-market and growth platforms, contributing to frontend work when needed. It requires strong ownership of production backend systems, proficiency with Vue, Node, Go, and Ruby, experience in API design, data modeling, and database performance, and the ability to document architecture and mentor junior engineers.

Work as a Senior Software Engineer developing, operating and owning cloud-native Go microservices that power real-time payment flows. The role focuses on reliability, high availability, low-latency performance, and operational excellence using technologies such as Go, Kubernetes, CockroachDB and NATS JetStream. The position is remote (UK/EU) with hiring explicitly listed for Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Join GitLab's DAP Repository Flows team to design and deliver end-to-end features for onboarding and repository/background flows on the Duo Agent Platform. The role focuses on building autonomous and scheduled agents that operate on customer codebases, integrating LLMs into products, and collaborating in a distributed, async-first environment. Strong hands-on Ruby and Ruby on Rails experience is required.

Join Grafana Labs' AppCore Stacks squad to design, build, and operate services that manage Grafana Cloud customer stacks (creation, configuration, reconciliation, migration). The role focuses on backend systems correctness, scalability, operational clarity, and cross-team collaboration and expects experience with Golang, distributed systems concepts, and familiarity with Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tooling.

Join Grafana Labs' AppCore Stacks squad to design, build, and operate backend reconciliation and control-plane services that manage Grafana Cloud stacks at scale. The role emphasizes Go development, distributed-systems and reconciliation work, Kubernetes and cloud familiarity, incident response/OnCall participation, and cross-team collaboration. Compensation range for Ireland is EUR 81,000–102,000.

Grafana Labs is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to work on Pyroscope, the open-source continuous profiling database used in Grafana Cloud Profiles. The role is remote (candidates must be in the UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden, or Ireland) and involves designing, building, and operating distributed database components (ingestion, storage, query), improving read-path efficiency, enabling trace-to-profile correlation, preparing APIs/CLI for agent-driven workflows, and driving operational excellence (SLOs, cost targets, on-call EMEA rotation). The position includes contributing to the open-source project. UK compensation range: £91,755 - £110,106 per year.

Join Grafana Labs as a Senior Engineer owning design, build, and operation of Pyroscope (an open-source continuous profiling database). The role focuses on distributed database components (ingestion, storage, query), profiling and observability (Go-based codebase), operational excellence (SLOs, on-call, autoscaling), and cross-team integration. Sweden compensation range listed: SEK 775,444–SEK 930,533 per year.

Grafana Labs seeks a Senior Backend Engineer for Pyroscope to design, build, and operate core components of a distributed profiling database (ingestion, storage, query) with a strong focus on scalability, cost, and reliability. The role is remote (candidates must be located in the UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden, or Ireland) and involves product-facing responsibilities, on-call rotations (EMEA), contributing to open source, and cross-team collaboration across Grafana's observability stack. Compensation range for Spain is €82,988–€99,586 per year.

Remote senior engineering role contributing to Pyroscope: design, build, and operate core components of a distributed profiling database (ingestion, storage, query), drive product and operational outcomes, integrate with Grafana observability stack, participate in open-source community and EMEA on-call rotation. Candidates must be located in the UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden, or Ireland.

Join the Pyroscope team to design, build, and operate core components of a distributed continuous-profiling database (ingestion, storage, query). Responsibilities include leading projects end-to-end, participating in on-call (EMEA rotation), engaging with customers, contributing to open source, and partnering across Grafana. Germany salary range provided: €97,034–€116,441/year.

Join Grafana Labs' Databases team to design, build, operate, and maintain multi-tenant distributed telemetry databases (Loki for logs, Mimir for metrics, Tempo for traces, Pyroscope for profiles). The role is remote, focuses on backend development in Go, runs services on Kubernetes across major cloud providers, involves on-call rotations, and values experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana), distributed systems, and cloud-native engineering.

Join Grafana Labs' Databases team to design, build, operate, and maintain multi-tenant distributed telemetry databases (Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Pyroscope). Role involves feature delivery, ownership of reliability and on-call rotations, contributing to open-source projects, and working primarily with Go, Kubernetes, cloud object storage and major cloud providers. Applicants in Spain, Ireland, Germany, the UK, or Sweden are of interest; Sweden-specific base compensation range provided.

Grafana Labs seeks a Senior Backend Engineer on the Databases team to design, build, operate, and maintain multi-tenant observability databases (Loki, Mimir, Tempo, Pyroscope). The role emphasizes Go-based services running on Kubernetes across major cloud providers, involvement in on-call rotations, contributions to open-source projects, and collaboration in a remote-first engineering organization. Salary range in Spain is listed as EUR 83,000–104,000 per year.

Grafana Labs is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for the Databases team to design, build, operate and maintain multi-tenant telemetry databases (Loki for logs, Mimir for metrics, Tempo for traces, Pyroscope for profiles). The role is remote within EMEA (candidates in Spain, Ireland, Germany, the UK or Sweden preferred), involves Go-based services on Kubernetes across major cloud providers, participation in on-call rotations, and collaboration in an open-source, distributed-systems environment. Germany base compensation listed as €97,000–€121,000.