- Company: GitLab
- Location: Bangalore, India
- Job type: Full-time
About the role
GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Development Health team in Bangalore. As customer zero for GitLab, you will support engineering workflows on the company’s own product at scale. Your goal is to make systems more reliable, maintainable, and easier to extend by building automation, tooling, and data solutions that help teams spot problems early.
The team is all-remote, asynchronous by default, and documentation-driven. You are expected to incorporate AI into your daily workflows to drive efficiency and innovation.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve core Development Health systems from design through production.
- Improve the reliability, maintainability, and test coverage of long-lived automation.
- Partner with engineering managers and product teams to identify workflow pain points and turn them into measurable improvements.
- Use data to show whether changes improve engineering health and prioritize work accordingly.
- Mentor intermediate engineers through code review, design feedback, and pairing.
- Monitor the health of production systems, troubleshoot incidents, and contribute to root cause analysis.
- Use AI agents and assistants to analyze issues and help shape the team’s product roadmap.
Requirements
- Substantial experience as a backend or tooling engineer with a track record of owning production systems end to end.
- Strong proficiency in Ruby, or the ability to become productive quickly.
- Experience maintaining or modernizing legacy codebases safely.
- Comfort with CI/CD systems, APIs, and automation at scale.
- Independent problem-solving skills and clear, concise written communication.
- Experience writing automated unit and integration tests and participating in collaborative code review.
- Experience using AI coding assistants to speed up development while critically reviewing their output.
- Optional experience: Rails, developer productivity, engineering analytics, internal tooling, GitLab’s product, data pipelines, or agent-based workflows.
Pay and benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off.
- Equity Compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Growth and Development Fund.
- Parental Leave.
- Team Member Resource Groups.
How to apply
Apply directly on GitLab’s own careers website. Omadaily never charges job seekers.
