Remote Backend Engineer — AI-Powered Feature Owner

GitLab Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer to take features from idea to shipping and post-production follow-up. You will work with Product, Frontend, Infrastructure, and Security to improve backend code, services, and APIs.

You will operate in a remote, asynchronous environment with senior engineers who review and guide your work. You’ll design and ship production-ready backend features using Ruby/Rails, Go, or other modern languages, while focusing on security, observability, and

Qualifications

• Production backend experience with Ruby/Rails or Go.
• Ability to ship features with minimal guidance.
• Strong API, database, testing, and performance fundamentals.
• Experience with asynchronous, remote collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Own and ship backend features and improvements with minimal guidance.
• Design, implement, test, and ship APIs, background jobs, and services.
• Improve automated coverage: unit, integration, contract, end-to-end tests.
• Investigate and fix production issues, support on-call responsibilities.

Skills

Backend basics

API design

Go

Ruby/Rails

Security awareness

AI fluency

Tools

PostgreSQL

gRPC

Rust

Job description

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer to take features from idea to shipping and post-production follow-up. You will work with Product, Frontend, Infrastructure, and Security to improve backend code, services, and APIs.

You will operate in a remote, asynchronous environment with senior engineers who review and guide your work. You’ll design and ship production-ready backend features using Ruby/Rails, Go, or other modern languages, while focusing on security, observability, and