7 hours ago
Remote, United KingdomMid Level
Base Salary
$115k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop secure, tested, performant backend features and improvements using Ruby and GraphQL.
- Design and maintain backend services, application programming interfaces, data models, and business logic governing repository changes.
- Build on Gitaly primitives and collaborate closely with the Gitaly team.
- Triage and fix bugs and support requests for team-owned features.
- Improve reliability through SQL tuning, caching, rate limiting, observability, resiliency, production monitoring, Tier 2 on-call, incident troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
- Use and critically review artificial intelligence coding agents for appropriately scoped work.
- Write maintainable code, participate in code reviews, and contribute technical documentation and knowledge sharing.
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 contributing to user-facing workflows and maintaining their underlying systems.
- Experience writing backend unit and integration tests, with familiarity with the testing pyramid, Git, and collaborative code review.
- Experience using artificial intelligence coding agents and reviewing their output, or interest in developing those skills.
- Clear written and spoken English communication skills for a remote, asynchronous environment.
- Ability to manage priorities, work through ambiguity, take ownership, and seek guidance when needed.
Benefits
- 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.
- Fully remote work; location-based eligibility requirements may apply.
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.