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

GitLab · Remote, United Kingdom

Posted 16 days ago

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This role has been open
16 days
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Ghost-job risk at GitLab
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Hiring momentum
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Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-17

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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.

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freshness
4/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
pay transparency
0/5

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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 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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