Backend Engineer — Ruby/Rails, Remote-First, Equity & PTO

GitLab; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

Parental leave

Equity compensation

Employee stock purchase plan

Growth and development fund

Team member resource groups

Job summary

GitLab is a remote-first company delivering an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. This role focuses on designing, implementing, testing, and shipping backend features, building robust APIs, and ensuring secure, maintainable code across teams.

The candidate will collaborate with product, frontend, infrastructure, and security teams to ship secure software in a fast-paced environment, with equity, PTO, parental leave, and development funds offered.

Qualifications

• Strong backend fundamentals with practical experience in Ruby on Rails or Go.
• Ability to design, implement, test, and ship features with minimal guidance.
• Excellent written communication and ability to collaborate remotely.

Responsibilities

• Take backend features from problem clarification through shipping and production follow-up.
• Design, implement, test, and ship features with minimal guidance.
• Build production-ready APIs, background jobs, and data models.
• Review code and contribute to maintainability and security.

Skills

Ruby/Rails

Go

Backend fundamentals

Written communication

Remote collaboration

AI fluency

Job description

GitLab is a remote-first company delivering an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. This role focuses on designing, implementing, testing, and shipping backend features, building robust APIs, and ensuring secure, maintainable code across teams.

The candidate will collaborate with product, frontend, infrastructure, and security teams to ship secure software in a fast-paced environment, with equity, PTO, parental leave, and development funds offered.