What you'll bring

• A strong track record of owning backend systems in production
• Strong fullstack technical skills with proficiency in Vue, Node, Go, and Ruby
• Deep experience with backend service design, including API design, data modeling, and database performance
• A track record of making sound technical trade-offs independently
• Comfort working in a fast-moving environment where priorities can shift with campaign or launch timelines
• Clear written communication skills, including architecture proposals and design records that help distributed teams make progress asynchronously.
• A practical and proactive approach to collaboration, with transferable experience welcomed from adjacent platform, data, or product engineering backgrounds.

Nice to have

• Experience building systems for a marketing, growth, or GTM engineering context, such as web platforms, content tooling, or campaign infrastructure
• Experience working in a remote-first or distributed organization
• Experience mentoring other engineers and influencing technical direction beyond your own individual work
• Explaining those trade-offs clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders

About the team

GTM Engineering builds and operates the technical systems that support how we reach and grow our audience. The team partners closely with Marketing, Design, and Content to turn business and campaign goals into reliable technical execution. The work spans web platforms, content tooling, and campaign infrastructure, and it's highly cross-functional, which means backend decisions made here often ripple out to other teams' timelines.

How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees

Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being

Flexible Paid Time Off

Team Member Resource Groups

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

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