Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby), Production Engineering: Tenant Controls (Fully Remote)

GitLab; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Equity compensation

Parental leave

Growth fund

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a backend-focused engineer to design and ship complex features across modular monoliths and services. You will define backend standards and advocate for quality, security, and performance.

We value strong backend architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance tuning, plus the ability to lead through influence and clear asynchronous communication in a remote-first, inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• Strong backend architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance tuning.
• Ability to lead through influence and clear asynchronous communication.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship complex backend features across modular monoliths and services.
• Define backend standards and advocate for quality, security, and performance.

Skills

Backend architecture

APIs

Data systems

Performance tuning

Leadership through influence

Asynchronous communication

Job description

• Design and ship complex backend features across modular monoliths and services.
• Define backend standards and advocate for quality, security, and performance.

What you'll bring:

• Strong backend architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance tuning.
• Ability to lead through influence and clear asynchronous communication.

About the team:

• Tenant Controls owns application-level rate limiting on GitLab.com.
• We build a single framework to define, count, and observe rate limits.
• Flexible PTO, equity compensation, parental leave, and growth fund.
• Remote-first culture with team member resource groups.

GitLab

GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations ship better, more secure software faster. With over 50 million registered users and trust from half the Fortune 100, GitLab has a remote-first, high-performance culture driven by shared values and AI adoption.