Requirements

• Professional experience building backend web applications, services, or application programming interfaces, with experience using Ruby and GraphQL or the ability to learn them.
• An understanding of relational databases, structured query language, data modeling, caching, background processing, and backend performance practices.
• Experience contributing to policy, permissions, or rules-based features in web applications and helping make that complexity reliable and maintainable.
• Experience writing backend unit and integration tests, with familiarity with Git and collaborative code review processes.
• Experience using artificial intelligence coding tools or agents, with the ability to review their output and recognize when additional guidance is needed.
• Clear written and spoken English communication skills, including sharing useful status updates and collaborating in a remote, asynchronous environment.
• The ability to manage assigned priorities, work through ambiguity, take ownership of your work, and seek guidance for decisions that are difficult to reverse.

What you'll be doing

• Develop secure, well-tested, performant features and improvements using Ruby and GraphQL.
• Work through complex requirements and legacy constraints to deliver clear solutions while protecting the reliability of this critical system.
• Contribute to backend services, application programming interfaces, data models, and business logic for repository management.
• Collaborate across functions and teams, both asynchronously and synchronously, involving domain experts and seeking guidance when needed.
• Use artificial intelligence agents for well-scoped work when they can speed up delivery without sacrificing quality, and critically review their output.
• Write maintainable code that follows GitLab's standards and apply feedback from code review.
• Help strengthen reliability by monitoring production health metrics, participating in Tier 2 on-call, troubleshooting incidents, contributing to root cause analysis, and improving observability and resiliency.
• Share knowledge through code review, technical documentation, and everyday collaboration while learning from others.

Perks and Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave