Ruby GraphQL Backend Engineer
Summary
Remote backend engineer building secure, tested, performant Ruby and GraphQL features for GitLab's Create: Source Code team. Day-to-day work spans designing services, APIs, data models, and business logic, plus monitoring, testing, Tier 2 on-call incident response, and code reviews.
Build Ruby and GraphQL backend capabilities remotely for GitLab’s Create: Source Code team, supporting reliable source code workflows across products.
As a Backend Engineer, you’ll develop secure, tested, performant features for complex source code systems. You’ll design services, application programming interfaces, data models, and business logic while collaborating across product, engineering, testing, security, and user experience teams. Artificial intelligence agents support carefully scoped work.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop secure Ruby and GraphQL features and improvements
- Design backend services, interfaces, data models, and business logic
- Maintain reliability through monitoring, testing, and observability
- Participate in Tier 2 on-call and troubleshoot incidents
- Share knowledge through reviews and technical documentation
Requirements:
- Professional backend web application, service, or interface experience
- Experience with Ruby and GraphQL
- Understanding of relational databases, SQL, caching, and performance
- Backend unit and integration testing experience
- Clear English communication in remote, asynchronous environments
Apply Ruby, GraphQL, testing, and reliability practices to source code experiences at GitLab from a remote setting.
