Top Engineering Jobs in Boston, MA

Build and operate Go-based automation for PostgreSQL provisioning, configuration, upgrades, failover, scaling, and decommissioning at GitLab.com scale. Develop a PostgreSQL-as-a-service platform, integrate cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code tooling, improve database performance and reliability, and create safe upgrade automation. The role includes production ownership, architecture leadership, code reviews, documentation, cross-team collaboration, mentorship, and using AI agents in engineering workflows.

Build and operate reliable, scalable production infrastructure for GitLab’s user-facing services. Responsibilities include developing infrastructure automation and tooling, managing Kubernetes deployments, maintaining infrastructure as code, supporting CI/CD and GitOps, participating in on-call and incident response, improving observability and SLOs, troubleshooting production systems, and documenting operational practices. The role spans Intermediate through Senior Staff levels and requires strong software engineering, cloud, reliability, and asynchronous collaboration skills.

Provides cross-team technical leadership for complex backend initiatives, modular architecture, monolith modernization, API and platform standards, production operations, and AI-assisted engineering adoption. Designs shared patterns for services, data, eventing, security, testing, observability, deployment, and reliability. Partners with Product and Engineering leadership, mentors engineers, participates in incident response, and drives technical strategy without formal authority.

Build, test, ship, and operate production backend features with minimal guidance. Design APIs, background jobs, integrations, data models, migrations, and bounded services while maintaining security, performance, observability, and reliability. Review code, improve automated testing, investigate production issues, address technical debt, participate in operational support, and collaborate asynchronously with product, frontend, infrastructure, and security teams. Use AI coding tools responsibly by validating and correcting generated output.

Leads more than 10 engineers across Agent Tools, Agent Observability, and Runner Execution. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, prioritization, technical design, AI tool standards, safe agent execution, sandboxing, observability, and cross-functional partnership across GitLab’s AI organization.

Leads technical direction and develops fullstack purchase experiences using Ruby on Rails and Vue.js. Designs resilient transactional flows, integrates billing and CRM systems, improves reliability and rollout safety, mentors engineers, reviews code, reduces technical debt, and participates in incident response. Partners with Product, Design, Billing, and Support to improve GitLab’s purchase, subscription, discount, and upgrade workflows.

The Staff Forward Deployed Engineer at GitLab works with strategic accounts to adopt GitLab and GitLab Duo Agent Platform, guiding technical discovery and building reusable solutions for complex enterprise environments.

Build and maintain the TypeScript-based Duo Client SDK, including Node.js core packages, public APIs, browser-compatible modules, Vue 3 client components, and platform adapters. Responsibilities include migrating consumers from the GitLab Language Server, managing versioning and deprecation paths, strengthening credential security, optimizing browser performance, writing tests, conducting code reviews, and participating in on-call support.

Lead customer migrations from self-managed GitLab to GitLab Dedicated using GitLab Geo. Plan replication, cutovers, network connectivity, and post-migration validation while debugging synchronization issues. Build repeatable automation, runbooks, and infrastructure validation using Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms. Manage multiple customer engagements, advise stakeholders, communicate technical plans, and collaborate with Professional Services, Product, and Engineering teams.

Design, build, and maintain People systems automations and integrations (Workato, Workday, Greenhouse, Slack) using production-quality code. Improve CI/CD, reliability, observability, and AI-driven automation (Claude, MCP). Serve as technical lead for People Technology, partner with stakeholders, and drive scalable, maintainable automation solutions.