Top Engineering Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Provides technical leadership for cross-team backend initiatives, modernizes monolithic and legacy systems, establishes architecture and engineering standards, and guides Go, Kubernetes, Rust, reliability, security, observability, and AI-assisted development practices. The role includes architectural decision-making, incident response, mentoring, technical debt reduction, and partnership with Product and Engineering leadership in a fully remote environment.

Build backend platforms and reusable tooling that enable engineering teams to independently perform performance testing, analysis, benchmarking, and optimization. Develop self-service workflows, documentation, templates, diagnostics, reporting, and AI-assisted engineering capabilities. Partner with development teams to integrate performance testing into development and release processes, generalize solutions for broad adoption, and provide expertise on complex performance challenges.

Build and lead a globally distributed DevOps engineering team responsible for reliable platform capabilities and repository experiences. Hire, mentor, and develop engineers; guide architecture, technical delivery, security, performance, and maintainability; align roadmaps with product and design; improve asynchronous workflows and delivery execution; integrate AI tooling; and support operational health, reliability, and incident management.

Design, build, and operate GitLab Orbit backend services in Rust across distributed, cloud-native environments. Improve Kubernetes deployments, infrastructure automation, observability, reliability, incident readiness, and multi-tenant performance. Develop graph query engines, indexing pipelines, cloud storage integrations, APIs, and MCP surfaces using systems such as S3, ClickHouse, and NATS. Own technical designs, production rollouts, troubleshooting, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration.

Deliver GitLab Professional Services engagements for federal customers in regulated, classified, and air-gapped environments. Install, configure, upgrade, secure, and troubleshoot GitLab across cloud, on-premises, Kubernetes, and disconnected deployments. Lead migrations from legacy tools, implement infrastructure as code, translate compliance requirements into configurations, support authorization evidence, conduct customer workshops, document runbooks, and coordinate with program managers, agency stakeholders, Product, and Engineering.

Build and operate Go-based automation for PostgreSQL provisioning, configuration, upgrades, failover, scaling, and decommissioning at GitLab scale. Develop PostgreSQL-as-a-service capabilities across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes or comparable automation platforms, and infrastructure-as-code tooling. Improve database performance, reliability, and scalability; operate production services; review code; document practices; and provide technical leadership, mentorship, and cross-team influence.

Site Reliability Engineers maintain reliable, scalable GitLab production services and infrastructure. Responsibilities include building automation and infrastructure-as-code tooling, operating Kubernetes systems, managing CI/CD and GitOps deployments, participating in on-call and incident response, improving observability and SLOs, troubleshooting production issues, and documenting operational practices. The role is remote within the United Kingdom and may be calibrated from Intermediate through Senior Staff based on experience and interview performance.

Build and maintain GitLab Duo’s TypeScript client SDK across frontend and backend systems. Responsibilities include designing public APIs, publishing versioned packages, creating isomorphic core modules, developing Vue 3 client components, improving credential security, optimizing browser performance, writing tests, reviewing code, and supporting an on-call rotation. The role is fully remote and involves collaboration on architectural improvements and incremental consumer migrations.

Lead customer migrations from self-managed GitLab to GitLab Dedicated, using GitLab Geo, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, networking, Terraform, and Ansible. Own migration planning, replication, cutover, validation, troubleshooting, and customer communication. Develop repeatable automation, tooling, and runbooks while coordinating with Professional Services, Product, and Engineering teams. Manage multiple engagements remotely and share technical insights to improve delivery.

Design and build backend and real-time features in the GitLab monolith for portfolio planning at scale. Optimize PostgreSQL performance, evolve GraphQL/REST APIs, improve large test suites, use feature flags and observability for safe rollouts, mentor engineers and contributors, participate in on-call rotations, and create proofs of concept for complex work.