Join GitLab as a Backend Engineer to enhance repository services using Ruby and GraphQL in a fully remote environment.
Posted by employer 1 day ago
First seen on Joblaze 6 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 6 hours ago
What you'll build
- Develop secure, well-tested, performant features and improvements using Ruby and GraphQL.
- Design and maintain backend services, application programming interfaces, data models, and business logic.
- Triage and fix bugs and support requests for the features the team owns.
- Collaborate across functions and teams.
- Help strengthen reliability by monitoring production health metrics.
Must have
- Professional experience building backend web applications, services, or APIs using Ruby and GraphQL.
- Understanding of relational databases, SQL, data modeling, caching, and backend performance practices.
- Experience writing backend unit and integration tests.
- Clear written and spoken English communication skills.
Nice to have
- Experience using artificial intelligence coding agents.
- Interest in building skills in a complex monorepo.
AI in the day-to-day
Use artificial intelligence agents for well-scoped work when they can speed up delivery without sacrificing quality.
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Backend Engineer for Repository Services at GitLab focuses on developing and maintaining backend features that manage how code is stored and verified in repositories. Proficiency in Ruby and GraphQL is essential, along with a solid understanding of relational databases and backend performance practices. This role is suitable for professionals with experience in backend web applications and a collaborative mindset, as it involves working closely with various teams to enhance system reliability and performance. The team is relatively new, emphasizing a culture of knowledge sharing and innovation.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 31, 2026. Last confirmed on GitLab's careers page October 31, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 1 other location at GitLab: Canada.
- Salary band is below the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 24% of 181 comparable mid backend roles we track (median $128,000 across 66 companies).
Quick facts
- Is the Backend Engineer, Source Code: Repository Services (Ruby) role remote?
- Yes — GitLab lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- GitLab lists $115,200–$194,400 for this role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: GraphQL, Ruby.
- What seniority level is this role?
- GitLab targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Backend Engineer, Source Code: Repository Services (Ruby) role at GitLab.
From the original posting
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.
We're looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Repository Services team in GitLab's Create stage. The team owns the repository side of Source Code: how code gets into a repository, who may change it, and how those changes are verified. We build this as an access layer on the primitives the Gitaly team provides, for GitLab's own features and for the artificial intelligence agents now writing and pushing code alongside people.
You'll work in one of GitLab's oldest and most complex product areas, using Ruby and GraphQL across GitLab.com, self-managed instances, and GitLab Dedicated. Repository Services is a new team, and its first months are about reliability and support, so you'll spend real time on performance and structured query language tuning, caching, rate limiting, testing, observability, and resiliency, with experienced team members to lean on. You'll collaborate with product management, product design, testing, security, user experience research, technical writing, Gitaly, Code Review, and the other Source Code teams.
What you'll do
- Develop secure, well-tested, performant features and improvements using Ruby and GraphQL.
- Work through complex requirements and legacy constraints to deliver clear solutions while protecting the reliability of this critical system.
- Design and maintain backend services, application programming interfaces, data models, and business logic that control how code reaches a repository, who may change it, and how it is verified.
- Build on the primitives Gitaly provides and work closely with the Gitaly team.
- Triage and fix bugs and support requests for the features the team owns.
- Collaborate across functions and teams, both asynchronously and synchronously, and involve domain experts when their input will improve the outcome.
- Use artificial intelligence agents for well-scoped work when they can speed up delivery without sacrificing quality, and critically review their output.
- Write maintainable code that follows GitLab's standards and contribute to constructive code reviews.
- Help strengthen reliability by monitoring production health metrics, participating in Tier 2 on-call, troubleshooting incidents, contributing to root cause analysis, and improving observability and resiliency.
- Share knowledge through code review, technical documentation, and everyday collaboration while learning from others.
- Professional experience building backend web applications, services, or application programming interfaces, with experience using Ruby and GraphQL.
- An understanding of relational databases, structured query language, data modeling, caching, background processing, and backend performance practices.
- Experience contributing to user-facing workflows and maintaining their underlying systems.
- Experience writing backend unit and integration tests, with familiarity with the testing pyramid, Git, and collaborative code review processes.
- Experience using artificial intelligence coding agents and reviewing their output, or an interest in building these skills in a complex monorepo.
- Clear written and spoken English communication skills, including sharing useful status updates in a remote, asynchronous environment.
- The ability to manage assigned priorities, work through ambiguity, take ownership of your work, and seek guidance when needed.
About the team
Repository Services is a small backend team in the Create stage, formed in September 2026 when Source Code split into focused teams. As the split is finalized we expect to own repository mirroring, Git Large File Storage (LFS), protected branches and Branch Rules, push rules, Code Owners (shared with Code Review), and commit and tag signing. We build on Gitaly's primitives and meet regularly with the Gitaly team, and our work serves GitLab.com, self-managed instances, and GitLab Dedicated.
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of the United States only. This range is intended to reflect the role's base salary rate in locations throughout the US. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, alignment with market data, and geographic location. The base salary range does not include any bonuses, equity, or benefits. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
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