Remote Rails Backend Engineer, Analytics Instrumentation

Ruby Developer; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 78,000 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity Compensation

Growth and Development Fund

Parental leave

Home office support

Job summary

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails) for Analytics Instrumentation. You will design and build backend services powering product analytics and data-driven insights in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

You’ll own critical APIs and data models, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to privacy-conscious data collection practices while using Ruby on Rails and modern web technologies. This role offers strong growth and global impact.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in backend development with Ruby on Rails, including building and maintaining production services.
• Experience designing and optimizing relational database schemas and queries (PostgreSQL) for analytics and event data.
• Experience building and maintaining REST and GraphQL APIs that integrate with complex products or platforms.
• Familiarity with Git-based workflows and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), ideally using GitLab.
• Experience working with frontend technologies such as JavaScript and frameworks like React or Vue.js, or interest in learning them to contribute across the stack.
• Experience working in collaborative, cross-functional teams with product management, data, and customer-facing teams.
• Ability to work autonomously in an all-remote, asynchronous environment while staying aligned with team goals.
• Interest in analytics, instrumentation, and privacy-focused data collection, with openness to transferable experience from related areas.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop analytics instrumentation capabilities that help GitLab teams understand how users interact with the product.
• Build and optimize scalable backend services and data models in Ruby on Rails to support high-volume internal event collection and processing.
• Develop and maintain robust APIs and developer-friendly tooling that product teams use to instrument their features and capture product usage data.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Data teams to deliver end-to-end instrumentation solutions that drive evidence-based decisions.
• Implement and refine privacy-focused data collection patterns and compliance safeguards within the Internal Events platform.
• Work on both backend and, when needed, frontend components of analytics instrumentation tools to deliver well-tested, intuitive experiences for product teams.
• Contribute to technical design decisions, code reviews, and engineering standards that shape the architecture of GitLab’s analytics instrumentation platform.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

REST APIs

GraphQL

CI/CD

JavaScript

React

Vue.js

Remote work

Cross-functional teamwork

Tools

GitLab

Git

Job description

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails) for Analytics Instrumentation. You will design and build backend services powering product analytics and data-driven insights in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

You’ll own critical APIs and data models, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to privacy-conscious data collection practices while using Ruby on Rails and modern web technologies. This role offers strong growth and global impact.