Rust Backend Engineer: Knowledge Graph & Data Analytics

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer on the Orbit team to build and operate a Rust-first Knowledge Graph service that supports GitLab Duo agents, analytics, and architecture features across deployments. You will own clear components, improve tests and runbooks, and focus on reliability and data quality.

You’ll work in an all-remote, international team within Data Engineering, collaborating across product, security, and infrastructure to ship scalable graph workloads with strong

Qualifications

• Production backend experience with reliable, maintainable services.
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language; strong Rust interest.
• Exposure to distributed data or analytics systems (OLAP, streaming, CDC).
• Interest in graph data modeling and multi-hop traversals.
• Experience using AI tools in development and validating outputs.
• Language-agnostic mindset; able to learn Ruby, Go, TypeScript/Vue as needed.
• Solid system-design fundamentals and written communication across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Implement and iterate on backend features in the Rust-based Knowledge Graph service.
• Maintain integrations with GitLab Rails, Data Insights Platform, and Duo Agent Platform.
• Contribute to system design discussions focused on reliability and scalability.
• Improve operational maturity with metrics, logging, runbooks, and alerts.
• Collaborate asynchronously with product, data, infrastructure, security, and AI teams.
• Use AI-assisted development workflows responsibly and share lessons.
• Participate in code reviews, knowledge-sharing, and pairing.
• Contribute across the stack, including occasional Ruby work and small UI changes.

Skills

Backend engineering

Rust

Distributed data / analytics

Graph data modeling

AI in development

Language-agnostic mindset

System design

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Rust language

Ruby

Go

TypeScript / Vue

Job description

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer on the Orbit team to build and operate a Rust-first Knowledge Graph service that supports GitLab Duo agents, analytics, and architecture features across deployments. You will own clear components, improve tests and runbooks, and focus on reliability and data quality.

You’ll work in an all-remote, international team within Data Engineering, collaborating across product, security, and infrastructure to ship scalable graph workloads with strong