Join the Repository Management team to develop secure, well-tested, and performant backend services and APIs using Ruby and GraphQL. Work includes data modeling, SQL tuning, caching, rate limiting, testing, observability, on-call incident response, and integrating AI coding tools where appropriate. Role is remote with hiring in the United Kingdom.

Lead technical direction and platform transformations for GitLab Dedicated, focusing on resilience, tenant orchestration, modular architectures, automation, and operational maturity. Requires deep SRE/Platform/Backend experience with cloud infrastructure, IaC, observability, distributed systems expertise, and programming experience in languages such as Go, Ruby, or Python.

Build and evolve reusable backend platforms and developer-facing tooling to enable teams to run performance testing and analysis in their CI/CD workflows. Drive adoption of self-service performance practices, create documentation and diagnostics, apply AI-assisted development practices, and provide expertise for complex performance problems. Role is remote, targeted to United States residents for the listed salary range.

GitLab seeks a Staff Backend Engineer for the Core DevOps team to lead large backend initiatives across teams, modernize a large monolith into modular systems, set standards for APIs, testing, security, observability and operability, participate in on-call and incident response, and mentor senior and intermediate engineers. Role is remote with a US base salary range listed.

Join a small senior team to design, build, and operate GitLab Orbit backend services (primarily Rust) in a distributed, cloud-native environment. Responsibilities include improving deployment and observability across GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self-Managed deployments (Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, AWS/GCP), strengthening reliability and operational automation, and contributing to the graph query engine, indexing pipelines, and cloud storage integrations.

GitLab is hiring a Staff (or Senior) Backend Engineer in the Database Excellence group to design, build, and operate Go-based automation for the full PostgreSQL lifecycle (provisioning, configuration, upgrades, failover, scaling, decommissioning). The role focuses on building PostgreSQL-as-a-service at internet scale, integrating across cloud providers and infrastructure-as-code tooling, and working remotely with US and Canada-based candidates.

Build and evolve data frameworks and tooling to keep GitLab's application datastores scalable, healthy, and safe across GitLab.com and self‑managed instances. Responsibilities include designing data retention and lifecycle management, schema-change-time enforcement, SQL traffic replay tooling, background operations frameworks, performance and scalability improvements, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires professional experience with PostgreSQL and Ruby on Rails and willingness to participate in tier‑2 database on‑call rotation.

Join GitLab's Trusted Agentic Development team to own the architecture and prototypes that close the validation gap for AI agent–authored code. Design mid-loop feedback, build language-aware validation approaches (starting with Rust, Ruby, and Go), collaborate across teams, and measure adoption and trust in an all-remote environment. Poland base salary range provided.

Work includes owning end-to-end workstreams to design, implement, and roll out fine-grained token permissions, custom roles, and policy enforcement across GraphQL and REST; refactoring policy code so it can be evaluated by both the monolith and a Rust policy engine (Zanzibar-style tuples and Cedar policies); improving reliability, performance, and security of authorization systems; and collaborating with authentication, platform, AI, and modular-service teams. Role is remote and listed locations include Canada, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Join GitLab’s Plan: Spec-Driven Development team to design and implement backend flows, APIs, data models, and evaluation systems for agentic workflows that turn intent into implementation. Work primarily with Ruby on Rails and Python, PostgreSQL, GraphQL/REST, LLM APIs and the GitLab Duo Agent Platform; lead features end-to-end, mentor engineers, and collaborate in an async remote environment. Poland base salary range: 272,000–408,000 PLN/year.

Join the Gitaly team to design and implement Git data storage and repository-serving systems used by GitLab.com and self-managed customers. Responsibilities include leading technical design for distributed storage and scalability, owning complex projects end-to-end, operating production systems (including on-call and incident response), and mentoring peers. Strong experience with Go or another backend/systems language, distributed/high-availability systems, performance and observability is expected; experience with Ruby, Git internals, or gRPC is desirable.

Work on GitLab's Vulnerability Management team to develop and maintain backend features (primarily Ruby on Rails) for security dashboards, vulnerability reports, and ingestion pipelines. Collaborate with frontend engineers, product, and design; participate in code reviews and on-call rotations; and help improve performance, reliability, and scalability of security data systems.

Join the Chat Engine backend team to develop Python-based agentic flows (LangGraph), the Flow Registry, and Duo Workflow Service, integrate chat capabilities with the GitLab Rails monolith (GraphQL), write tests and secure, high-scale code, and participate in on-call rotations. This is a remote role hiring in Canada and the United States.

Work on Gitaly to build GitLab's Git data storage tier, focusing on distributed storage, repository management, performance, reliability, and observability. Own technical initiatives end-to-end, participate in on-call and incident response, collaborate across teams, and mentor peers. Professional experience with Go or another backend/systems language is required; experience with Ruby, Git internals, gRPC, or Git server infrastructure is highly desirable.

Join GitLab's Agent Foundations stage to develop, ship and maintain backend features (primarily in Python) for the Duo Agent Platform, Duo Workflow Service and AI Gateway. Work with LangChain/LangGraph and design/implement APIs (GraphQL/REST), improve automated tests (pytest), troubleshoot production issues on on-call rotations, and collaborate async across cross-functional teams. Role is remote and open to candidates in Canada, Poland, and the United Kingdom.

Work on backend services, APIs, data models, and business logic for source code workflows across GitLab.com, self-managed instances, and GitLab Dedicated using Ruby and GraphQL. Responsibilities include performance and SQL tuning, caching, testing, observability, participating in Tier 2 on-call, and collaborating across product, design, security, and other engineering teams.

Join GitLab's Plan: Spec-Driven Development team to design and implement backend flows, APIs, data models, and evaluation systems that convert intent into implementation plans and mergeable code. Work remotely with a small distributed team, lead features end-to-end, mentor other engineers, and build production systems using Ruby on Rails, Python, PostgreSQL, GraphQL/REST, and large language model APIs.

The role designs, builds, and maintains backend services and APIs that support GitLab's go-to-market and growth platforms, contributing to frontend work when needed. It requires strong ownership of production backend systems, proficiency with Vue, Node, Go, and Ruby, experience in API design, data modeling, and database performance, and the ability to document architecture and mentor junior engineers.

Staff-level backend role responsible for setting technical direction and delivering autonomous and scheduled agents that operate on customer repositories, and improving the DAP onboarding experience. Requires deep hands-on Ruby/Rails experience, experience integrating LLMs into products, building agentic systems, and driving design and delivery of complex, high-scale systems in a distributed, async-first environment.

Remote Staff Backend Engineer (Canada or United States) for GitLab's Nonlinear Productivity team. Responsible for setting technical direction for agentic systems and orchestration, discovering and fixing SDLC friction, applying distributed systems judgment across GitLab's codebase, mentoring senior and mid-level engineers, and owning a greenfield technical foundation. Proficiency in Go, Rust, or Python and experience with LLM/agentic systems and distributed systems fundamentals are required. US base salary range listed: $152,800–$259,200 USD per year.