Remote Backend Engineer — Ownership, AI-Driven Impact

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Equity Compensation

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Job summary

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer to ship backend features end-to-end in a remote-first, asynchronous environment. You will collaborate with Product Management, Frontend, Infrastructure, and Security to deliver secure, maintainable services used by millions.

You will own features from clarifying requirements to production, apply AI judiciously, and contribute to the design, tests, and production readiness of APIs, data models, and background jobs.

Qualifications

• Professional experience building and shipping production backend applications, with strong programming, API, database, testing, debugging, and performance fundamentals.
• Experience with Ruby/Rails, Go, or any other modern backend language.
• The ability to take a feature from clarification through delivery and follow-up.
• Clear written communication and effective collaboration in a remote, asynchronous environment.
• Practical experience with AI coding tools, including the ability to review and correct what they generate.

Responsibilities

• Own and ship backend features: Design, implement, test, and ship backend features and improvements with minimal guidance, working in Ruby/Rails, Go, or any other modern languages.
• Build for production: Write maintainable, secure, observable, and performant code. Design and maintain APIs, background jobs, integrations, and bounded service functionality, and work with data models, migrations, indexes, and query behavior.
• Test and review: Add and improve automated coverage — unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end where appropriate — and review others’ code for correctness, maintainability, security, performance, and operational risk.
• Operate what you build: Investigate build, test, deployment, and runtime failures at the feature boundary, identify technical debt and propose practical improvements, and take part in on-call or operational support where your team’s ownership model requires it.
• Leverage AI: Use AI productively in daily work, validate what it produces, and understand where its limitations matter.

Skills

Backend fundamentals

Ruby/Rails

Go

API design

Remote collaboration

AI tooling familiarity

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

PostgreSQL

gRPC

Job description

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer to ship backend features end-to-end in a remote-first, asynchronous environment. You will collaborate with Product Management, Frontend, Infrastructure, and Security to deliver secure, maintainable services used by millions.

You will own features from clarifying requirements to production, apply AI judiciously, and contribute to the design, tests, and production readiness of APIs, data models, and background jobs.