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

GitLab · Remote, United Kingdom

Posted about 2 months ago

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This role has been open
73 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

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About this role

As a Senior Backend Engineer on GitLab’s External Agents team, you will design and build integrations that connect GitLab agents with tools like Slack and external solutions such as Claude Code or Codex. Your role involves taking ownership of complex features, collaborating with various teams to refine requirements, and ensuring the quality and performance of backend integrations. You will also participate in on-call rotations and contribute to improving the overall system's observability and resiliency.

Our read on this posting3.0out of 5
benefits
3/5
freshness
4/5
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 applications with Ruby on Rails, including background jobs, APIs, and data models.
  • Comfort working across the stack in a mature codebase.
  • Proficiency in designing or extending REST or GraphQL APIs with attention to scalability, maintainability, and backward compatibility.
  • Practical experience designing and shipping AI-powered backend features or integrations.
  • Strong SQL skills and familiarity with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, including efficient queries and data modeling.
  • Experience identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks at the application and, where relevant, infrastructure layers.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with Python backends or Vue frontends.

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

  • No salary listed
  • Role involves on-call responsibilities which may impact work-life balance
  • The team is newly formed, which may mean evolving processes and dynamics

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Listed by GitLab on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-11-14. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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