Backend Engineer, Create: Source Code ; Ruby

Position: Backend Engineer, Create: Source Code Experience (Ruby)
# Backend Engineer, Create:
Source Code Experience (Ruby)
Git Lab Salary  not stated

Full-time remote
· midCanadarubygraphql

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· posted 20 Oct 2026. The application happens there, not on Dev Connect.

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An overview of this role

We're looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Source Code Experience team within Git Lab's Create stage. You'll help make everyday source code workflows clear, reliable, and efficient for people working across Git Lab projects. As artificial intelligence agents increasingly write and manage code alongside people, you'll build backend capabilities and interfaces that support trustworthy collaboration between people and agents.

You'll work in one of Git Lab's oldest and most complex product areas, using Ruby and GraphQL to improve critical source code experiences across , self-managed instances, and Git Lab Dedicated. The Source Code group is responsible for the backend and frontend aspects of the product categories within Source Code. With support from experienced team members, you'll help maintain high reliability through performance and structured query language tuning, caching, rate limiting, testing, observability, and resiliency.

You'll collaborate with product management, product design, testing, security, user experience research, technical writing, Gitaly, Code Review, and other Source Code teams to deliver reliable and performant systems.

Learn more about the Create:

Source Code teams in the Git Lab Handbook.

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 support intuitive source code workflows.

- 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 Git Lab's standards and contribute to constructive code reviews.

- Help strengthen reliability by monitoring production health metrics,…