Backend Engineer: Repository Management & AI Guardrails

GitLab; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Backend Engineer to join the Repository Management team within Source Code. You will help customers configure repositories with confidence so their GitLab projects support the way their teams work.

As artificial intelligence agents increasingly support coding, you will build guardrails that keep development safe and trustworthy, delivering reliable backend solutions that scale across GitLab.com, self-managed instances, and GitLab Dedicated.

Qualifications

• Experience building backend web apps or APIs with Ruby/GraphQL or ability to learn them.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, SQL, data modeling, caching and backend performance.
• Experience with tests, code reviews, and Git collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Develop secure, well-tested, performant features and improvements using Ruby and GraphQL.
• Work through complex requirements and legacy constraints to deliver clear solutions while protecting the reliability of this critical system.
• Contribute to backend services, APIs, data models, and business logic for repository management.
• Collaborate across functions and teams, asynchronously and synchronously, involving domain experts.
• Use artificial intelligence agents for well-scoped work when they can speed up delivery without sacrificing quality, and critically review their output.
• Write maintainable code that follows GitLab's standards and apply feedback from code review.
• Help strengthen reliability by monitoring production health metrics, participating in Tier 2 on-call, troubleshooting incidents, contributing to root cause analysis, and improving observability and resiliency.
• Share knowledge through code review, technical documentation, and everyday collaboration while learning from others.

Skills

Ruby

GraphQL

Backend development

API design

Testing

SQL

Performance optimization

AI tooling

English communication

Tools

Git

Gitaly

GraphQL tooling

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Backend Engineer to join the Repository Management team within Source Code. You will help customers configure repositories with confidence so their GitLab projects support the way their teams work.

As artificial intelligence agents increasingly support coding, you will build guardrails that keep development safe and trustworthy, delivering reliable backend solutions that scale across GitLab.com, self-managed instances, and GitLab Dedicated.