or apply directly on GitLab's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 71 days GitLab's roles stay open a median of 99 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of GitLab's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at GitLab
- high 238 stale, 9 reposted of 238 open
- Hiring momentum
- 94 roles opened in the last 90 days ↓ down vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-11-14
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from GitLab's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for GitLab.
About this role
As an Intermediate Backend Engineer at GitLab, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, testing, and shipping backend features and improvements. You will collaborate with product management, frontend, infrastructure, and security teams, ensuring the quality and performance of shared backend code. The role emphasizes ownership of features from inception to delivery, with a focus on using AI tools to enhance productivity and efficiency in a remote work environment.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of GitLab as an employer.
What you need
- Professional experience building and shipping production backend applications
- Strong programming, API, database, testing, debugging, and performance fundamentals
- Experience with Ruby/Rails, Go, or any other modern backend language
- Ability to take a feature from clarification through delivery and follow-up
- Strong written communication and effective collaboration in a remote, asynchronous environment
- Practical experience with AI coding tools
Nice to have
- Production Go services, APIs, concurrency, profiling, or gRPC
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, or cloud deployment
- Familiarity with Rust for systems, security, performance, or platform work
- Experience with PostgreSQL, schema evolution, caching, queues, messaging, or event-driven workflows
- Knowledge of observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts
What you get
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
Worth weighing
- Remote work environment may require strong self-direction and communication skills
- Focus on using AI tools may not suit all candidates
- Role emphasizes feature ownership which may require a high level of independence
Summarised from GitLab's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by GitLab on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-11-14. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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