Backend Engineer (Ruby), AI Engineering: Agent Observability
GitLab · Remote, Canada
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 80 days GitLab's roles stay open a median of 76 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of GitLab's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at GitLab
- high 229 stale, 9 reposted of 238 open
- Hiring momentum
- 338 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-22
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 developing, shipping, and maintaining features for the Duo Agent Platform, primarily using Ruby and occasionally Python. Your role will involve designing and implementing APIs, improving automated testing, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance GitLab's AI capabilities. You will also participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot production issues and contribute to the overall quality and performance of the platform.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- 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
- Experience building and maintaining production Ruby on Rails applications, including background jobs, APIs and data models.
- Skill in designing or extending REST and/or GraphQL APIs with attention to scalability, maintainability and backward compatibility.
- Proven SQL and experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including writing efficient queries and data modeling.
- Experience finding and fixing performance bottlenecks in applications.
- Clear written and verbal communication, including technical proposals and documentation, in a remote, async, cross-functional team.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Python backends and/or Vue frontends is a plus.
- Real enthusiasm for AI and hands-on experience using AI tools in your daily work.
- Experience designing and shipping AI-powered backend features or integrations is a plus.
- Openness to learning and to applying skills from related technologies or fields.
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
- The role involves working in a mature codebase, which may require adaptation for some candidates.
- The position is remote, but may have specific location-based eligibility requirements.
- The job description emphasizes a high-visibility area where GitLab's core platform meets its AI strategy, which may involve significant responsibility.
Summarised from GitLab's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by GitLab on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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