Intermediate Backend Engineer, India
GitLab · Posted Nov 5
DevSecOps platform, software version control, CI/CD pipeline, and AI-assisted development services
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About the role
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation, with more than 50 million registered users. GitLab works remote-first and expects all team members to incorporate AI into their daily workflows as a core productivity multiplier. As an Intermediate Backend Engineer, you will take backend features and improvements from clarifying the problem through shipping and production follow-up within a product area, partnering with Product Management, Frontend, Infrastructure, and Security, and working in Ruby/Rails, Go, or other modern languages.
What you will do
- Own and Ship Features: Design, implement, test, and ship backend features and improvements with minimal guidance, working in Ruby/Rails, Go, or any other modern languages.
- Build for Production: Write maintainable, secure, observable, and performant code. Design and maintain APIs, background jobs, integrations, and bounded service functionality, and work with data models, migrations, indexes, and query behavior.
- Test and Review: Add and improve automated coverage — unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end where appropriate — and review others’ code for correctness, maintainability, security, performance, and operational risk.
- Operate What You Build: Investigate build, test, deployment, and runtime failures at the feature boundary, identify technical debt and propose practical improvements, and take part in on-call or operational support where your team’s ownership model requires it.
- Leverage AI: Use AI productively in daily work, validate what it produces, and understand where its limitations matter.
- On Call Support: Take part in on-call or operational support where your team’s ownership model requires it.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Backend Fundamentals: Professional experience building and shipping production backend applications, with strong programming, API, database, testing, debugging, and performance fundamentals.
- Adaptability: Experience with Ruby/Rails, Go, or any other modern backend language. We value the ability to learn and adapt over mastery of a single language.
- Feature Ownership: The ability to take a feature from clarification through delivery and follow-up, working independently while seeking input at the right time.
- Practical Judgment: Sound instincts about security, reliability, performance, maintainability, and operational risk, plus an understanding of modular backend boundaries and the consequences of coupling.
- Clear Communication: Strong written communication and effective collaboration in a remote, asynchronous environment.
- AI Fluency: Practical experience with AI coding tools, including the ability to review and correct what they generate.
Preferred qualifications
- Production Go services, APIs, concurrency, profiling, or gRPC.
- Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, or cloud deployment.
- Rust, particularly for systems, security, performance, or platform work.
- PostgreSQL, schema evolution, caching, queues, messaging, or event-driven workflows.
- Observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
- Contributing to a modular monolith, bounded context, shared component, or independently operated service.
Benefits and support
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
About GitLab
GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, delivered as a single application that empowers development, security, and operations teams to ship software faster and more securely. Operating as one of the world's largest all-remote companies, GitLab integrates the entire software lifecycle from planning and source code management to CI/CD and automated security testing. Millions of users and thousands of organizations globally rely on GitLab to scale their development workflows and adopt agentic AI engineering.
- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 2375 employees
- Founded
- 2011
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $435M raised
- 2022-09-16Post IPOUndisclosed
- 2019-09-17Series E$268M
- 2018-09-19Series D$100M
- 2017-10-10Series C$20M
- 2016-03-15Series B$4M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Product and Marketing Officer
Chief Business and Legal Officer
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