Intermediate Backend Engineer

GitLab Inc. · Bengaluru

  • Experience2–5 yrs
  • SalaryNot disclosed
  • Work modeonsite
  • Levelmid
  • Posted15 Sept 2026
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About GitLab Inc.

GitLab Inc. is hiring in Bengaluru in technology software. This role looks for around 2+ years of experience.

Skills

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Go
  • API development
  • database design
  • automated testing
  • debugging
  • performance optimization
  • application security
  • software reliability
  • AI coding tools

The role

A backend engineer at a software product company designs and ships production APIs, Ruby on Rails services, and Go applications, while improving automated testing and AI coding tools. The role builds secure, observable, performant backend systems with data models, migrations, integrations, and operational reliability.

Full job description

GitLabs is hiring for the role of Intermediate Backend Engineer!

Responsibility of the Candidate:

Own and Ship Features: Design, implement, test, and ship backend features and improvements with minimal guidance, working in Ruby/Rails, Go, or any other modern languages.

Build for Production: Write maintainable, secure, observable, and performant code. Design and maintain APIs, background jobs, integrations, and bounded service functionality, and work with data models, migrations, indexes, and query behavior.

Test and Review: Add and improve automated coverage — unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end where appropriate — and review others’ code for correctness, maintainability, security, performance, and operational risk.

Operate What You Build: Investigate build, test, deployment, and runtime failures at the feature boundary, identify technical debt and propose practical improvements, and take part in on-call or operational support where your team’s ownership model requires it.

Leverage AI: Use AI productively in daily work, validate what it produces, and understand where its limitations matter.

Requirements

Backend Fundamentals: Professional experience building and shipping production backend applications, with strong programming, API, database, testing, debugging, and performance fundamentals.

Adaptability: Experience with Ruby/Rails, Go, or any other modern backend language. We value the ability to learn and adapt over mastery of a single language.

Feature Ownership: The ability to take a feature from clarification through delivery and follow-up, working independently while seeking input at the right time.

Practical Judgment: Sound instincts about security, reliability, performance, maintainability, and operational risk, plus an understanding of modular backend boundaries and the consequences of coupling.

Clear Communication: Strong written communication and effective collaboration in a remote, asynchronous environment.

AI Fluency: Practical experience with AI coding tools, including the ability to review and correct what they generate.