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Backend Engineer (Ruby), Create: Change Record

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Europe

Employer listed it 8 days ago · Added 6 days ago

First listed 8 days ago and still open.

Salary

Not stated

Location

Europe

Work style

Async

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Mid

What the advert says

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Working hours: Clear written and spoken English communication skills, including sharing useful status updates in a remote, asynchronous environment.
Where you can work from: Location eligibility not confirmed
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Experience asked for: Not mentioned in the advert
Pay: The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the EU, applicable in the specified country or countries only.

Remote flexibility

Region Restricted

Remote work is allowed, but only for candidates based in Poland, United Kingdom, Europe.

What the employer says

Source listing states candidate location: "Remote, Poland; Remote, United Kingdom"
Job description states: "residents of the EU"

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About the role

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

* Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab.

An overview of this role

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Change Record team within GitLab’s Source Code stage . As AI agents increasingly write code alongside people, every change needs a clear, trustworthy record of what changed, why, and who or what made it. You’ll build that record into GitLab’s source code experience, for humans and agents alike. This is a backend-focused role for an engineer with full-stack experience who enjoys balancing work on existing systems with new product development.

That work happens in one of GitLab’s oldest and most complex product areas, where you’ll use Ruby on Rails to improve a critical system serving GitLab.com, self-managed instances, and GitLab Dedicated. Source Code provides the interface layer, through Gitaly, to the Git repositories behind a large share of GitLab traffic, so you’ll help keep it reliable through performance tuning, caching, rate limiting, observability, and resiliency, collaborating with product, design, security, Gitaly, Code Review, and Source Code Experience teams. Supporting production systems and improving established experiences are central to the role, especially while you’re onboarding, and over time you’ll also help build experiences for developers working with agents.

You'll work remotely from the United Kingdom or Poland.

What you’ll do

Develop secure, well-tested, performant features and improvements using Ruby on Rails and GraphQL, among other technologies.

Work through complex requirements and legacy constraints to deliver clear solutions while protecting the reliability of this critical system.

Design and maintain backend services, APIs, data models, and business logic that support intuitive source code workflows.

Collaborate across functions and teams, both asynchronously and synchronously, and involve domain experts when their input will improve the outcome.

Use AI 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 contribute to constructive code reviews.

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.

What you’ll bring

Professional experience building backend web applications, services, or application programming interfaces, with experience using Ruby and GraphQL.

An understanding of relational databases, structured query language, data modeling, caching, background processing, and backend performance practices.

Experience with full-stack development to build and maintain user-facing workflows and their underlying systems.

Experience writing backend unit and integration tests, with familiarity with the testing pyramid, Git, and collaborative code review processes.

Clear written and spoken English communication skills, including sharing useful status updates in a remote, asynchronous environment.

The ability to manage assigned priorities, work through ambiguity, take ownership of your work, and seek guidance when needed.

Experience using AI coding agents to speed up software development while critically reviewing their output.

Requirements

·Professional experience building backend web applications, services, or application programming interfaces, with experience using Ruby and GraphQL.
·An understanding of relational databases, structured query language, data modeling, caching, background processing, and backend performance practices.
·Experience with full-stack development to build and maintain user-facing workflows and their underlying systems.
·Experience writing backend unit and integration tests, with familiarity with the testing pyramid, Git, and collaborative code review processes.
·Clear written and spoken English communication skills, including sharing useful status updates in a remote, asynchronous environment.

Benefits

·Flexible Paid Time Off
·Team Member Resource Groups
·Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
·Growth and Development Fund

How to apply

1Check the flexibility label above, region restricted, matches where you plan to live and work.
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