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Intermediate Backend Engineer

Full-timePosted 11 Nov

Salary: Not disclosed
Eligible batches: 2024 · 2025 · 2026
Location: Remote

About the role

GitLab is looking for an Intermediate Backend Engineer to design, build, and ship backend features for its large‑scale DevSecOps platform. The role is fully remote, collaborative and expects you to work independently while partnering with product, frontend, infrastructure and security teams.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, test and deliver backend functionality using Ruby/Rails, Go or other modern languages.
Write maintainable, secure and observable code, manage APIs, background jobs, data models and migrations.
Increase automated test coverage and review peer code for quality, performance and security.
Investigate build, deployment and runtime issues, contribute to on‑call support and reduce technical debt.
Leverage AI‑based coding tools responsibly, validating outputs and understanding limitations.

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Eligibility

Professional experience building production backend services with strong fundamentals in programming, APIs, databases and testing.
Ability to work autonomously in a remote, asynchronous environment and communicate clearly in writing.
Experience with Ruby/Rails, Go or willingness to learn new backend languages.

Skills

Ruby and Rails
Go
Docker and Kubernetes
PostgreSQL and database schema evolution
CI/CD pipelines
API design and implementation
Automated testing (unit, integration, contract)
Observability (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards)

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Ruby
Rails
Go
Docker
Kubernetes
PostgreSQL
CI/CD
API
Testing
Observability

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gRPC
Helm
Cloud
Caching

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Benefits

Health, financial and wellbeing benefits
Flexible paid time off
Equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan
Growth and development fund
Parental leave and inclusive employee resource groups

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Makes GitLab, a DevSecOps platform where software teams and their AI agents work together to store, share, test and deliver code.

Founded 2014 · 1001-5000 employees · HQ San Francisco, California, USA

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