Senior Backend Engineer, Development Health

Career Tools

About This Role

GitLab operates an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, helping organizations boost developer efficiency, streamline operations, and minimize security and compliance risks. More than half of Fortune 100 companies and over 50 million registered users utilize GitLab to deliver secure software rapidly. Team members integrate artificial intelligence into daily workflows as a core productivity driver. As a Senior Backend Engineer within the Development Health group, you will enhance the reliability, maintainability,…

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Manage and evolve core Development Health systems from initial design through production deployment
• Enhance the test coverage, maintainability, and reliability of long-lived automation while simplifying legacy platforms
• Collaborate with engineering managers and product teams to identify pain points and implement measurable solutions
• Analyze data to measure the impact of changes on engineering health and set priorities accordingly
• Provide mentorship to intermediate engineers through design feedback, code reviews, and pair programming
• Maintain clear asynchronous written communication regarding statuses, tradeoffs, and proposals with cross-functional stakeholders
• Supervise production system health, manage incident troubleshooting, and participate in root cause analyses
• Leverage artificial intelligence assistants and agents to analyze issues and help shape the team product roadmap

Requirements

• Substantial prior experience as a tooling or backend engineer with a history of owning production systems end to end
• Strong proficiency in Ruby or the capability to become productive in it quickly
• Demonstrated experience in safely modernizing or maintaining legacy codebases
• Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous delivery systems, APIs, and automation at scale
• Strong independent problem-solving skills and concise written communication abilities
• Experience writing automated integration and unit tests alongside participation in collaborative code reviews
• Practical experience utilizing AI coding assistants to accelerate development while critically reviewing the results

Qualifications

• Familiarity with the Ruby on Rails framework
• Prior background in developer productivity, internal tooling, or engineering analytics
• Familiarity with GitLab product workflows and open source contribution processes
• Experience working with metrics reporting or data pipelines
• Experience implementing agent-based workflows that operate in production environments

Core Skills

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Access to team member resource groups
• Equity compensation and an employee stock purchase plan
• Growth and development fund
• Parental leave

Frequently Asked Questions

Answers are based only on the employer’s listing; where it doesn’t say, neither do we.

Sample Interview Questions

AI-generated questions tailored to this specific role — a preview of the full practice set.