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GitLab · 6 days ago

Intermediate Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails), Analytics Instrumentation

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid Level

GitLab is an open-core software company that develops a comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform. The Intermediate Backend Engineer will help build GitLab's product analytics capabilities, designing and developing backend services to support data-driven insights and scalable event collection.

Cloud SecurityDeveloper ToolsDevOpsOpen SourceSaaS

Comp. & Benefits

Responsibilities

Design and develop analytics instrumentation capabilities that help GitLab teams understand how users interact with the product

Build and optimize scalable backend services and data models in Ruby on Rails to support high-volume internal event collection and processing

Develop and maintain robust APIs and developer-friendly tooling that product teams use to instrument their features and capture product usage data

Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Data teams to deliver end-to-end instrumentation solutions that drive evidence-based decisions

Implement and refine privacy-focused data collection patterns and compliance safeguards within the Internal Events platform

Work on both backend and, when needed, frontend components of analytics instrumentation tools to deliver well-tested, intuitive experiences for product teams

Contribute to technical design decisions, code reviews, and engineering standards that shape the architecture of GitLab’s analytics instrumentation platform

Qualification

Ruby on RailsPostgreSQLREST APIsGraphQL APIsGit-based workflowsCI/CDJavaScriptReactVue.jsAutonomyInterest in analyticsPrivacy-focused data collectionCollaboration

Required

Proficiency in backend development with Ruby on Rails, including building and maintaining production services

Experience designing and optimizing relational database schemas and queries (for example, PostgreSQL) for analytics and event data

Experience building and maintaining REST and GraphQL APIs that integrate with complex products or platforms

Familiarity with Git-based workflows and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), ideally using GitLab

Experience working with frontend technologies such as JavaScript and frameworks like React or Vue.js, or interest in learning them to contribute across the stack

Experience working in collaborative, cross-functional teams with product management, data, and customer-facing teams

Ability to work autonomously in an all-remote, asynchronous environment while staying aligned with team goals

Interest in analytics, instrumentation, and privacy-focused data collection, with openness to transferable experience from related areas