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The role
GitLab is hiring a Backend Engineer for the Source Code Experience team in its Create stage. You will use Ruby and GraphQL to improve source code workflows on GitLab.com, self-managed and GitLab Dedicated, including support for people and AI agents working together.
What you will do
- Build secure, tested and performant features in Ruby and GraphQL
- Design and maintain backend services, APIs, data models and business logic for source code workflows
- Work around legacy constraints while protecting the reliability of a core product area
- Tune performance through query optimization, caching and rate limiting, and improve observability
- Join Tier 2 on-call, troubleshoot incidents and contribute to root cause analysis
- Use AI agents for well-scoped tasks and review their output critically; share knowledge through code review and docs
What they ask for
- Professional experience building backend web applications, services or APIs with Ruby and GraphQL
- Understanding of relational databases, SQL, data modeling, caching and background processing
- Experience writing backend unit and integration tests and using Git and code review
- Experience with AI coding agents, or interest in learning to use them in a large monorepo
- Clear written and spoken English for asynchronous remote work
- Ability to manage priorities and work through ambiguity
What they offer
- Flexible paid time off
- Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
- Growth and development fund
- Parental leave
- Team member resource groups
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on GitLab's careers page behind the apply button.
