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GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer to join its remote-first engineering team. In this role, you will own backend features and improvements from problem clarification through production delivery and follow-up. You'll work within a product area, collaborating with Product Management, Frontend, Infrastructure, and Security teams to deliver predictably while contributing to code quality, security, performance, and maintainability.
You will design, implement, test, and ship backend features with minimal guidance, working in Ruby/Rails, Go, or other modern languages. Your responsibilities include building production-ready code that is maintainable, secure, observable, and performant. You'll design and maintain APIs, background jobs, integrations, and bounded service functionality, working with data models, migrations, indexes, and query optimization.
The role emphasizes ownership and autonomy. You'll take features from requirements through delivery, investigate build and runtime failures, identify technical debt, and propose practical improvements. You'll add and improve automated test coverage (unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end) and review others' code for correctness, maintainability, security, and performance. You'll also participate in on-call or operational support as your team's ownership model requires.
GitLab values clear written communication and self-direction in its remote, asynchronous environment. You'll work alongside tenured engineers who treat code review and design review as learning loops. The company embraces AI as a core productivity multiplier, and you'll be expected to incorporate AI into your daily workflows to drive efficiency and innovation.
You should bring professional experience building and shipping production backend applications with strong fundamentals in programming, APIs, databases, testing, debugging, and performance. You'll demonstrate the ability to take features from clarification through delivery independently while seeking input at the right time. Sound judgment about security, reliability, performance, maintainability, and operational risk is essential, along with understanding of modular backend boundaries and coupling consequences.
