5 hours ago
Remote, United Kingdom or Remote, PolandMid Level
Responsibilities
- Develop secure, well-tested, performant backend features using Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, and related technologies.
- Design and maintain backend services, APIs, data models, and business logic supporting source-code workflows.
- Work through complex requirements and legacy constraints while protecting system reliability.
- Improve production reliability through monitoring, Tier 2 on-call participation, incident troubleshooting, root cause analysis, observability, and resiliency work.
- Collaborate with product, design, security, Gitaly, Code Review, Source Code Experience, and other engineering teams.
- Use AI agents for appropriately scoped development work and critically review their output.
- Write maintainable code, participate in code reviews, and share knowledge through documentation and collaboration.
Requirements
- Professional experience building backend web applications, services, or APIs with Ruby and GraphQL.
- Understanding of relational databases, SQL, data modeling, caching, background processing, and backend performance practices.
- Experience with full-stack development for user-facing workflows and their underlying systems.
- Experience writing backend unit and integration tests, with familiarity with the testing pyramid, Git, and collaborative code review.
- Clear written and spoken English communication skills for remote asynchronous collaboration.
- Ability to manage priorities, work through ambiguity, take ownership, and seek guidance when needed.
- Experience using AI coding agents while critically reviewing their output.
- Production experience building agents or agent-based workflows is a bonus.
Benefits
- Remote work from the United Kingdom or Poland.
- Benefits supporting health, finances, and well-being.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Team Member Resource Groups.
- Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan.
- Growth and Development Fund.
- Parental leave.
About GitLab
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.
