Intermediate Backend Engineer, AMER

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer to join their team. As an Intermediate Backend Engineer, you will take backend features and improvements from clarifying the problem through shipping them and following up in production.

You will work within a product area, partnering with Product Management, Frontend, Infrastructure, and Security to deliver predictably and contribute to the quality, security, performance, and maintainability of shared backend code and services.

The ideal candidate will have professional experience building and shipping production backend applications, with strong programming, API, database, testing, debugging, and performance fundamentals.

Key responsibilities:

• 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.
• 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.

Requirements:

• 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.
• 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.

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