Backend Engineer (Ruby), Create: Change Record

Overview

In this Backend Engineer role, you join GitLab’s Change Record team within Source Code to ensure every code change is well-documented and trustworthy for humans and AI agents. You will balance improving existing systems with new product development in a Ruby on Rails and GraphQL environment, serving GitLab.com, self-managed, and GitLab Dedicated. Remote in the UK or Poland, you’ll focus on reliability, performance, and cross-functional collaboration to shape secure source code workflows.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

Responsibilities

• Develop secure, tested, and performant features using Ruby on Rails and GraphQL
• Design and maintain backend services, APIs, data models, and business logic
• Collaborate across functions and teams, involving domain experts when relevant
• Utilize AI agents for scoped work, while critically reviewing outputs
• Write maintainable code and participate in constructive code reviews
• Improve production reliability through monitoring, on-call involvement, and root cause analysis
• Share knowledge via code reviews and technical documentation
• Support production systems and onboarding of developers
• Contribute to observability and resiliency improvements

Key requirements

• Backend web application development experience using Ruby and GraphQL
• Understanding of relational databases, SQL, data modeling, caching, and background processing
• Full-stack development experience to support user-facing workflows
• Backend testing: unit and integration tests, familiarity with testing pyramid, Git, and code reviews
• Clear English communication in a remote, asynchronous environment
• Ability to manage priorities, handle ambiguity, own work, and seek guidance when needed
• Experience using AI coding agents to speed up software development and critically review output
• Bonus: experience building agents or agent-based production workflows

• Strong collaboration across teams
• Effective written and spoken communication
• Ownership and accountability
• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails
• GraphQL

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