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Senior Backend Engineer, Development Health

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6 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve core Development Health systems from design through production.
  • Improve the reliability, maintainability, documentation, and test coverage of long-lived automation and legacy systems.
  • Partner with engineering managers and product teams to identify workflow pain points and deliver measurable improvements.
  • Use engineering data to evaluate changes and prioritize work.
  • Monitor production systems, troubleshoot incidents, and contribute to root cause analysis.
  • Mentor intermediate engineers through code review, design feedback, and pairing.
  • Communicate status, tradeoffs, and proposals clearly in writing and asynchronously.
  • Use AI agents and assistants to analyze engineering issues and inform the product roadmap.

Requirements

  • Substantial experience as a backend or tooling engineer owning production systems end to end.
  • Strong proficiency in Ruby or the ability to become productive quickly.
  • Experience safely maintaining or modernizing legacy codebases.
  • Experience with CI/CD systems, APIs, and automation at scale.
  • Independent problem-solving skills and clear, concise written communication.
  • Experience writing automated unit and integration tests and participating in collaborative code review.
  • Experience using AI coding assistants while critically reviewing their output.
  • Optional experience with Rails, developer productivity, engineering analytics, internal tooling, GitLab and open source contribution workflows, data pipelines, metrics reporting, or production agent-based workflows.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work with an asynchronous-by-default and documentation-driven environment.
  • Benefits supporting health, finances, and well-being.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Team Member Resource Groups.
  • Equity compensation and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Growth and Development Fund.
  • Parental leave.

Tech Stack

RubyRuby on Rails

Categories

GitLab

About GitLab

1,001-5,000 employees

GitLab builds a DevSecOps platform that unifies source code management, CI/CD, and security with AI-assisted workflows for software teams and enterprises. It sells cloud-hosted and self-managed subscriptions, plus enterprise features and support. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, GitLab is a public company listed on NASDAQ and is widely used by large enterprises, including many in the Fortune 100.

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