Intermediate Backend Engineer, Pipeline Authoring

GitLab; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity compensation

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Backend Engineer to mature the Pipeline Authoring Catalog and Component functionality, enhancing performance, scalability, and security of Pipeline Creation. You will work with a skilled team to ensure a best-in-class GitLab CI/CD experience across multiple time zones.

The role emphasizes async collaboration, writing testable Ruby code, and contributing to reviews, with opportunities to shape architecture and drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Proficiency with Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL a plus).
• Experience with GraphQL is a plus.
• Ability to work asynchronously and communicate clearly.

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality, efficient, and maintainable code following best practices.
• Ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance.
• Improve reliability, security, and performance of GitLab CI/CD components.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

GraphQL

Async collaboration

Job description

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our valuesand continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

*Fortune 500 is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.

An overview of this role

The Pipeline Authoring group develops tools for creating and managing your pipelines. We balance maintaining core functionality of the product with developing newer areas. Our key areas of focus are CI/CD components and the CI/CD Catalog, which allows users to discover, reuse, and contribute CI/CD components to make software development more efficient and productive.

As a Backend Engineer, you will work on maturing our Catalog and Component functionality and reliability, improve and maintain performance, scalability and security of Pipeline Creation, and always consider usability and user experience in these key areas of the product. Your contributions and collaboration with your fellow team members will ensure that GitLab CI/CD remains a best in class solution.

Some of the things we have recently been working on include:

• Inputs for Pipelines

• Inputs for Jobs

• Inputs Enhancements

• CI/CD Catalog - UX improvements

• Learn more on the Pipeline Authoring direction pages:

  • Pipeline Composition
  • Component Catalog

About the team

The Pipeline Authoring team is made up of experienced Engineers, some having worked in this area for many years and some having joined more recently. The team shares a passion for finding solutions to complex challenges that scale and are maintainable. Located across five countries and several time zones, async communication is key to our success. The team lives by GitLab’s core values and is always eager to improve. Many things in GitLab begin with a pipeline, so our team regularly interacts with other GitLab teams, community contributors and customers as we strive to create the best possible Pipeline Authoring experience.

Learn more on the Pipeline Authoring group handbook page and Pipeline Authoring Unfiltered playlist.

What you’ll do

• Write high-quality, efficient, and maintainable code while adhering to best practices and contributing to code reviews.
• Ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Advocate for improvements to reliability, security, and performance.
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team (“technical debt”), propose and implement solutions.
• Participate in agile development practices, including async planning sessions, stand-ups, and retrospectives, to drive iterative software development and continuous improvement for the team.
• Contribute to our development process by asking questions and providing feedback to make us better as a team.
• Embrace continuous learning and stay connected with industry best practices, tools, and technologies to drive improvements in our software.
• Participate in Tier 2 on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.

What you’ll bring

• Proficiency with Ruby and Ruby on Rails
• Proven experience writing testable code in Ruby on Rails
• Experience with Relational Database Management Systems (PostgreSQL is a plus)
• Experience with GraphQL is a plus
• An ability to self manage and organize in an asynchronous and collaborative work environment
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Familiarity with various stages of software development end-to-end (Agile methodologies is a plus)
• Proven ability to work effectively in a team including product managers, designers, and other engineers
• A commitment to continuous learning and openness to giving and receiving feedback as a part of fostering individual and team development

How GitLab Supports Full-Time Employees

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

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