Intermediate Backend Engineer, AI Governance
GitLab
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: India
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About the role
- Implement well-scoped backend features across the AI Governance product area, including event normalization utilities, storage layer enhancements, API endpoint additions, export support, and registry integrations, delivering production-ready work that ships on schedule.
- Build and maintain automated test coverage for your work using RSpec or equivalent tools to improve reliability and support safe, consistent releases.
- Grow your knowledge of AI governance, agent-related product architecture, and integration patterns through hands-on delivery and teamwork so you can contribute more effectively as the roadmap evolves.
- Work closely with senior and staff engineers to deliver solutions that are reliable, maintainable, and aligned with the product direction and release goals.
- Work asynchronously with cross-functional partners and nearby engineering teams working on related governance and AI capabilities to help maintain smooth delivery across teams.
- Take ownership of your scoped work and deliver with a high level of follow-through in a fast-moving product area, closing tasks with clear status updates and consistent execution.
Requirements
- Demonstrated backend development experience building and shipping production features.
- Proficiency with Ruby on Rails and solid fundamentals in PostgreSQL.
- Experience building and maintaining automated test coverage with RSpec or an equivalent testing framework.
- Experience communicating clearly in writing with teammates in an async environment.
- Demonstrated ability to drive scoped work through completion and follow through on commitments.
- Experience with, or exposure to, audit event systems, telemetry pipelines, or compliance-focused tooling.
- Experience learning new technical domains and applying that understanding to product development.
- Additional experience with GraphQL APIs, event-driven architecture patterns, Python, or data-focused databases such as ClickHouse.
Benefits
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental leave
- Home office support
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
backend developmentRuby on RailsPostgreSQLRSpecGraphQLevent-driven architecturePythonClickHouseautomated test coverageproduction features
Soft Skills
clear communicationownershipfollow-throughteamworkasync collaborationreliabilitymaintainabilityexecutionadaptabilitycommitment