Remote Rust Backend Engineer — Knowledge Graph & AI

GitLab Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 115,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Paid Time Off

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock P

Growth and Development Fund

Parental Leave

Team Member Resource Groups

Job summary

GitLab Inc. is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer on the Orbit team to build and operate a Rust-first Knowledge Graph service supporting analytics and DAG features across GitLab deployments.

You will own components, improve reliability, and collaborate with AI and security teams. You’ll work in a low-process, high-ownership environment, with opportunities to contribute to Rails integration and frontend work related to Knowledge Graph features.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language and strong interest in Rust.
• Experience with backend systems in production and reliability, maintainability.
• Exposure to distributed data or analytics systems (OLAP, Kafka/NATS) is a plus.
• Interest in graph data modeling and query patterns; willingness to learn Knowledge Graph concepts.
• Experience using AI tools in day-to-day development with validated outputs.

Responsibilities

• Implement and iterate on backend features in the Knowledge Graph service, including query engine and API endpoints.
• Maintain integrations between Knowledge Graph and GitLab platform across Rails, Data Insights Platform, and Duo Agent Platform.
• Contribute to system design discussions focusing on reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Enhance metrics, logging, runbooks, alerts, and participate in on-call rotation as appropriate.
• Collaborate asynchronously with product, data, infrastructure, security, and AI teams to deliver features safely.
• Adopt AI-assisted development workflows and share learnings with the team.
• Participate in code reviews, knowledge-sharing, and pairing; contribute to Ruby work for Rails integration as needed.

Skills

Rust

Backend development

Distributed data

Graph data modeling

AI in development

Language-agnostic mindset

Rails integration

Ruby

Go

TypeScript/Vue

Tools

Ruby

Go

TypeScript/Vue

Rails integration

Job description

GitLab Inc. is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer on the Orbit team to build and operate a Rust-first Knowledge Graph service supporting analytics and DAG features across GitLab deployments.

You will own components, improve reliability, and collaborate with AI and security teams. You’ll work in a low-process, high-ownership environment, with opportunities to contribute to Rails integration and frontend work related to Knowledge Graph features.