Remote Staff Devops Engineer Jobs
Remote Staff Devops Engineer jobs are open across the U.S. at technology companies, financial services firms, SaaS platforms, and cloud-native startups that run fully distributed engineering teams. From mid-level devops engineers to staff-level principals owning infrastructure strategy, remote-first employers are actively filling these roles. Employers hiring remotely right now include Ad Hoc, Impinj, and mPulse. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.
The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.
- Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.
An overview of this role
As a Staff Backend Engineer on GitLab's Core DevOps team, you'll provide technical leadership across your team and adjacent teams. You'll lead large backend initiatives, guide the modernization of a large monolith into modular, reusable, appropriately independent systems, and set standards that help teams move faster without compromising quality, security, reliability, or operability.
You'll work with Product, Frontend, Infrastructure, Security, Data, Engineering Managers, and engineers across product groups. You'll lead complex backend architecture, make product trade-offs, and influence technical direction without formal authority.
GitLab is an open core software company that develops an artificial intelligence-powered DevSecOps platform. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. We work in an all-remote, asynchronous environment where you communicate decisions clearly in writing and work independently.
What you’ll do
- Lead the technical design and delivery of backend initiatives that span teams, and identify and remove systemic bottlenecks across product and infrastructure groups.
- Drive modular backend, service, data, and platform architecture, including modernization of the monolith and legacy backends while preventing fragmentation and service sprawl.
- Define and improve standards for application programming interfaces, contracts, compatibility, schema evolution, testing, security, performance, observability, operability, and maintainability.
- Establish patterns for dependency management, data ownership, eventing, failure isolation, service maturity, and operational documentation.
- Establish Go service patterns and Kubernetes operating practices where they matter to the production estate, and guide Rust adoption where it addresses systems, security, performance, or supply-chain needs.
- Take part in on-call and incident response for systems your teams own, serve as a technical escalation point during complex incidents, and turn lessons from incidents into lasting improvements.
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership on platform roadmap decisions and investment trade-offs.
- Mentor Senior and Intermediate engineers, reduce technical debt, build reusable patterns that improve team throughput, and lead adoption of artificial intelligence-assisted and agentic workflows with quality, security, privacy, and operational guardrails.
What you’ll bring
- A record of leading technical work across more than one team or a broad product area.
- Deep backend architecture and production experience with complex applications, services, or platforms, including application programming interfaces, service platforms, data systems, modular monoliths, or shared backend components.
- Experience modernizing a monolith or legacy backend architecture in production and using modular approaches such as bounded contexts, package encapsulation, ports and adapters, service extraction, or event-driven boundaries.
- Experience building alignment through clear written proposals and decision records so teams document, understand, and adopt technical decisions.
- Experience making trade-offs among customer outcomes, delivery speed, technical health, reliability, and long-term platform investment.
- Experience mentoring engineers and shaping standards through code review, documentation, and practice.
- Production experience with artificial intelligence-assisted or agentic engineering workflows, including improving how a team adopts them.
About the team
The Core DevOps team owns core repository capabilities, from Git command-line operations to web-based code exploration. We build features and platforms, improve existing capabilities, and improve maintainability, accessibility, performance, and workflows for teams using artificial intelligence-assisted development tools.
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
United States Salary Range
$152,800 - $259,200 USD
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
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.
Privacy Policy: Please review our Recruitment Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us.
GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.
The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.
- Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.
An overview of this role
As a Staff Backend Engineer on GitLab's Core DevOps team, you'll provide technical leadership across your team and adjacent teams. You'll lead large backend initiatives, guide the modernization of a large monolith into modular, reusable, appropriately independent systems, and set standards that help teams move faster without compromising quality, security, reliability, or operability.
You'll work with Product, Frontend, Infrastructure, Security, Data, Engineering Managers, and engineers across product groups. You'll lead complex backend architecture, make product trade-offs, and influence technical direction without formal authority.
GitLab is an open core software company that develops an artificial intelligence-powered DevSecOps platform. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. We work in an all-remote, asynchronous environment where you communicate decisions clearly in writing and work independently.
What you’ll do
- Lead the technical design and delivery of backend initiatives that span teams, and identify and remove systemic bottlenecks across product and infrastructure groups.
- Drive modular backend, service, data, and platform architecture, including modernization of the monolith and legacy backends while preventing fragmentation and service sprawl.
- Define and improve standards for application programming interfaces, contracts, compatibility, schema evolution, testing, security, performance, observability, operability, and maintainability.
- Establish patterns for dependency management, data ownership, eventing, failure isolation, service maturity, and operational documentation.
- Establish Go service patterns and Kubernetes operating practices where they matter to the production estate, and guide Rust adoption where it addresses systems, security, performance, or supply-chain needs.
- Take part in on-call and incident response for systems your teams own, serve as a technical escalation point during complex incidents, and turn lessons from incidents into lasting improvements.
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership on platform roadmap decisions and investment trade-offs.
- Mentor Senior and Intermediate engineers, reduce technical debt, build reusable patterns that improve team throughput, and lead adoption of artificial intelligence-assisted and agentic workflows with quality, security, privacy, and operational guardrails.
What you’ll bring
- A record of leading technical work across more than one team or a broad product area.
- Deep backend architecture and production experience with complex applications, services, or platforms, including application programming interfaces, service platforms, data systems, modular monoliths, or shared backend components.
- Experience modernizing a monolith or legacy backend architecture in production and using modular approaches such as bounded contexts, package encapsulation, ports and adapters, service extraction, or event-driven boundaries.
- Experience building alignment through clear written proposals and decision records so teams document, understand, and adopt technical decisions.
- Experience making trade-offs among customer outcomes, delivery speed, technical health, reliability, and long-term platform investment.
- Experience mentoring engineers and shaping standards through code review, documentation, and practice.
- Production experience with artificial intelligence-assisted or agentic engineering workflows, including improving how a team adopts them.
About the team
The Core DevOps team owns core repository capabilities, from Git command-line operations to web-based code exploration. We build features and platforms, improve existing capabilities, and improve maintainability, accessibility, performance, and workflows for teams using artificial intelligence-assisted development tools.
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
United States Salary Range
$152,800 - $259,200 USD
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
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.
Privacy Policy: Please review our Recruitment Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us.
GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote staff devops engineer jobs.
- Five or more years of experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipeline tooling
- Deep hands-on expertise with at least one major cloud provider such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed infrastructure in production environments
- Proficiency in one or more scripting or programming languages including Python, Go, or Bash
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional platform or reliability initiatives without direct management authority
- Relevant certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, CKA, or Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
Tips for Your Remote Staff Devops Engineer Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote staff devops engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place. Search by role and apply directly to the listings that match your stack and seniority level before competitive postings close.
Show async collaboration in your materials
Remote employers at the staff level screen hard for written communication. Include links to architecture decision records, runbooks, or internal documentation you have authored, and mention tools like Notion, Confluence, or Slack in context, not as a list.
Build a public infrastructure portfolio
Push real Terraform modules, Helm charts, or pipeline configurations to a public repository. Remote hiring managers reviewing staff candidates want evidence of how you structure and document infrastructure decisions, not just a list of tools on a resume.
Prepare for distributed-team interview formats
Remote staff devops engineer interviews often include async technical assessments and multi-round video calls with engineers across time zones. Practice narrating your infrastructure reasoning out loud and expect questions about how you handle incident response and on-call coordination without co-location.
Remote Staff Devops Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote staff devops engineer job?
Remote employers hiring at the staff level look for engineers who can drive infrastructure decisions independently, document their reasoning clearly, and coordinate across distributed teams without relying on in-person oversight. Strong candidates demonstrate deep experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code tooling like Terraform or Pulumi, and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure. Written communication skills and a history of async collaboration give applicants a real edge over candidates with equivalent technical skills but no remote experience.
Which companies hire remote staff devops engineers?
Employers currently hiring remote staff devops engineers include Ad Hoc, Impinj, and mPulse, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Remote-first SaaS companies, cloud infrastructure firms, and distributed fintech and healthtech teams make up the bulk of these openings, since their engineering organizations are built to operate across time zones.
Can you get a remote staff devops engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level devops roles are harder to land because employers expect new hires to troubleshoot and make decisions independently from day one. Candidates with limited professional experience can strengthen their case by contributing to open-source infrastructure projects, building a public portfolio of Terraform modules or pipeline configurations, and earning cloud certifications. Remote-first startups and smaller distributed teams are more willing to take a chance on candidates who can show concrete, self-directed technical work.
Do you need a degree for remote staff devops engineer jobs?
Not always. Remote employers hiring staff devops engineers consistently weigh demonstrated infrastructure skills, production experience, and results over formal credentials. Candidates who can show they have owned complex CI/CD environments, managed cloud cost optimization, or led incident response on distributed systems tend to move through hiring regardless of whether they hold a degree. Relevant certifications and a strong technical portfolio carry real weight in remote screening processes.
Which industries hire the most remote staff devops engineers?
Most remote staff devops engineer openings sit in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. These sectors hire staff devops engineers remotely because their products and infrastructure live entirely in the cloud, making geographic location irrelevant to day-to-day engineering work.
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