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$115,200–$162,000/yr
North America Unlimited PTO

  • Build and iterate on Rust backend features for the Knowledge Graph service, including query and indexing flows.
  • Maintain integrations across GitLab, including Rails, NATS, ClickHouse, and the Duo Agent Platform.
  • Contribute to design discussions and improve operational maturity with metrics, runbooks, and async collaboration.

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US Unlimited PTO

  • Lead the architecture and development of the Hercules Database, backend services, and SDKs.
  • Engineer for low latency, high throughput, and efficient resource use across data-intensive, multi-tenant systems.
  • Build and operate reliable hosting infrastructure with strong tenant isolation, observability, and failure resilience.

Hercules builds the future of AI software development with a platform-as-a-service including a database, backend services, and SDKs. It is an early-stage company with a founding team based in San Francisco and a culture that values shipping fast, excellence, and hunger.

North America Unlimited PTO

  • Architect how GitLab and third-party data is ingested, modeled, and synced into a near-real-time knowledge graph.
  • Lead integration with external systems and architect the Data Marketplace for Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery.
  • Define operational readiness and mentor senior and intermediate engineers across the team.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations increase developer productivity and accelerate digital transformation. With more than 50 million registered users and over 50% of the Fortune 100, GitLab fosters a high-performance, AI-driven culture where every voice is valued.

Poland Unlimited PTO

  • Design and ship moderate to complex backend features for a global platform with minimal guidance.
  • Define backend standards for style, maintainability, testing, APIs, and operational readiness.
  • Mentor engineers, diagnose performance issues, and integrate agentic AI into production workflows.

GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations ship better, more secure software faster. With over 50 million registered users and trust from half the Fortune 100, GitLab has a remote-first, high-performance culture driven by shared values and AI adoption.

Spain Unlimited PTO

  • Design and develop high-performance backend systems in Rust that collect billions of data points from the web.
  • Work on our in-house proxy layer, browser tooling, and protocol-level behavior to handle close to 200 million requests a day.
  • Collaborate with crawler engineers, DevOps, and Security to build secure, scalable, and reliable crawling infrastructure.

Lighthouse is on a mission to revolutionize commercial strategy as hospitality's most powerful AI platform, transforming the world's largest hotel data network into real-time intelligence. With 850+ teammates across 35 countries and $370M in Series C funding, we foster a collaborative, customer-centric culture focused on innovation and growth.

UK

  • Develop secure, well-tested features using Ruby and GraphQL for repository management.
  • Work through complex requirements and legacy constraints to deliver reliable and performant solutions.
  • Collaborate across teams and functions, both asynchronously and synchronously, using AI tools to speed up delivery.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity and accelerate digital transformation. They serve over 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100, fostering a high-performance culture driven by values and continuous knowledge exchange.

Europe

  • Develop secure, well-tested features using Ruby on Rails and GraphQL to improve GitLab's source code experience.
  • Design and maintain backend services and APIs while supporting production reliability through performance tuning and observability.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and use AI agents to speed delivery while critically reviewing their output.

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to improve developer productivity and security. Trusted by over 50 million users and most of the Fortune 100, it fosters a high-performance culture built on shared values, AI adoption, and continuous knowledge exchange.

$145,500–$235,400/yr
US

  • Design, implement, test, and operate production services and APIs.
  • Lead projects or meaningful components of projects from problem definition through deployment and iteration.
  • Improve the observability and operability of the systems you own, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and incident learnings.

LaunchDarkly provides a platform that helps engineering teams release software and AI with speed, safety, and control using feature flags and observability. The company is growing and emphasizes teamwork, humility, openness, curiosity, and inclusive collaboration.

$120,078–$144,094/yr
North America 6w PTO

  • Own technical direction for Tempo, the open-source tracing backend, on multi-month initiatives spanning design, delivery, and operations.
  • Own major components like ingestion, storage, query, and metrics generation while driving operational excellence through automation and SLOs.
  • Mentor engineers and collaborate with product, staff, and community teams to evolve Tempo into a platform for observability products.

Grafana Labs builds Grafana Cloud, a managed observability platform trusted by 10,000+ organizations. We are 100% remote with team members in 40+ countries and a collaborative, open-source-driven culture.

North America 6w PTO

  • Take an active role in influencing the roadmap and own critical systems for Grafana's next-generation storage layer.
  • Collaborate with your team to design, build, operate, and maintain large distributed systems at scale.
  • Mentor teammates and participate in on-call rotations while embracing open-source culture.

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, a fully managed observability platform trusted by over 10,000 organizations. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, built on an open-source legacy and a collaborative, innovation-driven culture.

North America 6w PTO

  • Design and build the underlying storage system for a general purpose data platform with OLAP and OTLP capabilities.
  • Take ownership of ingestion, query planning, distributed execution, and storage formats for a multi-tenant SaaS database.
  • Partner across teams to build APIs and interfaces for AI agents and internal applications to retrieve data.

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, an observability platform trusted by over 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability and optimize telemetry at scale. They are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries and a collaborative, innovation-driven culture.

$180,000–$400,000/yr
Global

  • Build powerful, user-friendly tools for enterprises to onboard, manage, and scale Hightouch deployments.
  • Architect scalable backend systems for roles, permissions, access control, and change management.
  • Help admins optimize warehouse performance and costs driven by Hightouch activity.

Hightouch is a data activation platform that lets enterprises sync data from their warehouses into business tools and manage customer data. The company is remote-first, works with large enterprise customers, and values impact, intellectual curiosity, and product-minded engineering.

Global 5w PTO 16w maternity 6w paternity

  • Design and build distributed systems for ingestion, normalization, processing, storage, and delivery of realtime market data.
  • Build and operate streaming solutions handling event ordering, timestamps, duplicates, replay, gaps, and recovery.
  • Lead technical decisions, write clear designs, and mentor engineers to deliver reliable data platforms.

Dune is a blockchain data and intelligence provider making onchain finance observable, serving 130+ chains and 1,000+ industry leaders. We're a tight-knit team of ~50 hardworking people across Europe and US timezones, humble yet ambitious.

$160,000–$200,000/yr
Global Unlimited PTO

  • Contribute to architecture and improvement of our data acquisition and processing platform.
  • Use and develop web crawling technologies to capture and catalog data on the internet.
  • Design and develop backend services for distributed job orchestration, data pipelines, and large-scale asynchronous workloads.

People Data Labs is a provider of people and company data, integrating thousands of compliantly sourced datasets into a single, developer-friendly source of truth. We are a team focused on extreme ownership and a one-team mindset, embracing failure as a learning opportunity.

US

  • Develop core backend infrastructure for blockchain execution and Ethereum scaling.
  • Tackle distributed systems challenges involving reliability, performance, and scalability.
  • Strengthen security and drive projects from investigation through implementation.

They build foundational infrastructure for Ethereum scalability, security, and decentralized applications. They are a remote-first, globally distributed team collaborating across research, product, and blockchain engineering.

$193,461–$291,000/yr
US

  • Work on core infrastructure powering Arbitrum, tackling distributed systems challenges and optimizing performance.
  • Collaborate with research, product, and blockchain engineering teams at the cutting edge of blockchain technology.
  • Establish backend architectural standards and drive technical roadmap for complex distributed systems.

Offchain Labs is a pioneer in blockchain scalability and security, building the Arbitrum stack that powers the leading Ethereum scaling solution. Backed by $124 million in funding, our team of thinkers and doers embraces new challenges and pushes boundaries.

Global

  • Driving the progress of the Turso Open Source database, in particular the Postgres compatibility layer.
  • Making sure code works, and never breaks, and putting the systems and guarantees in place for that to happen.
  • Maintaining the Turso Cloud operations, including the Cloud API and data plane operations.

Supabase is the Postgres development platform, built by developers for developers, providing a complete backend solution including Database, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions, Realtime, and Vector Search. The company is born-remote and open-source-first, with ~400 team members across 60+ countries, moving fast and building in public.

US

  • Design, develop, and maintain large-scale distributed database and storage systems.
  • Build performance-critical infrastructure using Go, Rust, C++, or similar systems programming languages.
  • Operate production systems and troubleshoot complex reliability, performance, and availability issues.

This company builds and operates large-scale distributed database and storage infrastructure with a focus on low latency and high availability. They offer a fully remote, multinational work environment and comprehensive healthcare coverage.

Canada 5w PTO

  • Lead multi-month engineering initiatives for a distributed tracing platform, from technical design to production operations.
  • Own and improve backend components across data ingestion, storage, query processing, and metrics generation.
  • Mentor engineers, contribute to open source, and build scalable APIs for observability and AI-powered workflows.

Grafana Labs builds open-source observability tools, including the Tempo distributed tracing platform. This remote-first, globally distributed team values autonomy, transparency, and open-source collaboration.

$146,000–$225,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Break down larger projects into individual tasks and deliver them in phases with support from your tech lead and manager.
  • Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics to make decisions that consider risks and trade-offs.
  • Support operations and availability of your team's artifacts by creating metrics and participating in on-call efforts.

Affirm is a financial technology company that provides transparent, flexible payment solutions. The company is remote-first and fosters a culture of care, transparency, and flexibility.

Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Break down larger projects into individual tasks and deliver them in phases while collaborating with your team.
  • Partner with product, design, and analytics to articulate technical constraints, assess trade-offs, and shape decisions.
  • Support system availability by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating issues, and participating in on-call efforts.

Affirm is a financial technology company offering point-of-sale installment loans and payment solutions that let consumers pay over time predictably. It is a publicly traded, remote-first company with a global engineering team and a culture centered on transparency, customer trust, and flexibility.