Backend Engineer (Ruby)

About the role

As a Backend Engineer on the Plan: Spec-Driven Development team, you will help build GitLab's intent-to-code loop, creating agentic workflows that transform user intent into actionable work items and verified code. You will own early-stage backend development across APIs, data models, and evaluation systems while collaborating with a distributed team on a high-visibility product initiative.

Responsibilities

• Lead backend features from early product discussions through technical design, implementation, and rollout.
• Build the flows, APIs, and data models behind agent-generated work items and implementation plans.
• Develop evaluation and benchmarking systems to measure workflow quality and success rates.
• Use Ruby on Rails and Python to build reliable production systems.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to shape scope and make practical trade-offs.
• Coordinate multi-person projects and communicate decisions in an asynchronous environment.
• Mentor other engineers and contribute to technical direction across the Plan group.

Required skills

• Ruby on Rails
• Python
• PostgreSQL
• API design
• SQL

Nice to have

• GraphQL
• PostgreSQL performance
• LLM systems
• Agent systems

Qualifications

• Experience driving substantial projects with multiple engineers
• Product mindset with experience owning features end to end
• Full stack background with a focus on backend engineering

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Equity Compensation
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

About the Company

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity and reduce security risk. More than 50 million registered users trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.