Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby), Production Engineering:Tenant ControlsPosted today

The opportunity

You'll join Tenant Controls within Production Engineering, where we own application-level rate limiting on GitLab. com.

What you'll do

  • Design and ship moderate to complex backend features with minimal guidance,: choosing between modular-monolith code, shared components, and independently operated services.

  • Influence team objectives, technical direction, and long-range goals,: partnering with product managers and designers to shape requirements around user needs.

  • Define backend standards for style, maintainability, testing, application: programming interfaces (APIs), and operational readiness, advocating for quality, security, availability, and performance.

  • Mentor associate and intermediate engineers, remove technical blockers, and: improve delivery practices through code and design reviews.

  • Diagnose and prevent performance and reliability issues at scale, participate: in incident response, and act as a technical owner where appropriate.

  • Experiment with and integrate agentic AI into production engineering: workflows, evaluate its effectiveness, and coach others on responsible use and sound judgment.