Intermediate Backend Engineer, AMER

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About This Role

GitLab, an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps trusted by over 50 million registered users and more than half of the Fortune 100, is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer for a remote position in the AMER region. In this capacity, you will guide backend features and improvements through their entire lifecycle, from problem definition to post-deployment monitoring. Working independently with minimal supervision, you will collaborate alongside product management, frontend, infrastructure, and…

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Design, test, implement, and ship backend features and enhancements independently using modern languages like Ruby on Rails or Go
• Develop secure, maintainable, performant, and observable code for APIs, background jobs, integrations, and services
• Manage data models, query performance, migrations, indexes, and schema evolution
• Write and enhance automated test coverage including unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end tests
• Review code contributions from peers focusing on security, correctness, and operational risk
• Troubleshoot runtime, build, test, and deployment issues at feature boundaries and address technical debt
• Participate in operational support or on-call duties according to team requirements
• Integrate AI tools into daily workflows while verifying their outputs and recognizing limitations

Requirements

• Professional background in building and deploying production backend applications
• Strong fundamentals in APIs, databases, testing, debugging, and performance
• Proficiency or adaptability with modern backend languages such as Ruby on Rails or Go
• Capability to take features from initial clarification through delivery and production follow-up independently
• Sound practical judgment regarding security, reliability, maintainability, and operational risk
• Strong written communication skills for a remote, asynchronous work setting
• Practical experience utilizing AI coding tools with the ability to review generated content

Qualifications

• Experience with production Go services, gRPC, concurrency, or profiling
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD pipelines, or cloud deployment
• Knowledge of Rust for systems, platform, performance, or security work
• Experience with PostgreSQL, caching, queues, messaging, or event-driven workflows
• Familiarity with observability tools including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts
• Background contributing to modular monoliths, shared components, or bounded contexts

Core Skills

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

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