Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby), AI Catalog: External Agents

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join its External Agents team. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and build integrations that bring GitLab agents into tools such as Slack and connect external solutions with GitLab.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, ship, and maintain secure, well-tested, and performant external agent integrations across the GitLab monolith backend.
• Collaborate with Product Management, user experience, frontend, backend, and AI specialists to refine requirements and deliver high-quality improvements iteratively.
• Design, implement, and review GraphQL and REST application programming interfaces (APIs) and related backend logic.
• Improve and extend automated testing to strengthen quality, reliability, and developer feedback loops.
• Share standards, patterns, and lessons with other engineers to support responsible AI integration.
• Participate in Tier 2 on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, and contribute to root cause analysis.
• Assess the competitive landscape and help GitLab build strong AI integrations.

Requirements:

• Experience building and maintaining production applications with Ruby on Rails.
• Comfort working across the stack in a mature codebase.
• Proficiency in designing or extending REST or GraphQL APIs.
• Practical experience designing and shipping AI-powered backend features or integrations.
• Strong SQL skills and familiarity with relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Experience identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks.
• Openness to learning, collaborating in an asynchronous, distributed team.

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