Backend Engineer, GitLab Orbit is open at GitLab (Remote, Canada; Remote, United States). The posting gives a salary of $115K - $162K. Posted on Oct 23, 2026, and still on GitLab’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
, you’ll deliver features and improvements in well-scoped areas, learn the broader architecture, and contribute to reliability, observability, and operational readiness. In your first year, you’ll take clear ownership of specific components or features (for example, parts of the SDLC indexing pipeline or query paths). You’ll help reduce single points of failure with better tests and runbooks, and you’ll help the…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on GitLab’s careers page.
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