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GitLab

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Consulting • Marketing • Artificial Intelligence

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform, offering tools for automated software delivery, security, and compliance throughout the software development lifecycle. It provides solutions across areas such as AI-assisted development, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), source code management, and vulnerability management. GitLab aims to simplify and accelerate software delivery by uniting development, security, and operations on a unified platform. It is particularly recognized for its AI code assistants and has been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms, making it a preferred choice for many enterprises.

📋 Description

• 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 system reliability • Contribute to backend services, APIs, data models, and business logic for repository management • Collaborate across functions and teams asynchronously and synchronously, involving domain experts and seeking guidance when needed • Use AI agents for well-scoped work and critically review their output • Write maintainable code following GitLab standards and apply code-review feedback • Monitor production health metrics, participate in Tier 2 on-call, troubleshoot incidents, contribute to root cause analysis, and improve observability and resiliency • Share knowledge through code review, technical documentation, and everyday collaboration • Help mature GitLab’s branch protection offering while maintaining availability, reliability, and stability • Contribute to roadmap areas including Branch Rules, Codeowners, merge strategy options, and AI-powered repository management and configuration

🎯 Requirements

• Professional experience building backend web applications, services, or APIs, with Ruby and GraphQL experience or ability to learn them • Understanding of relational databases, SQL, data modeling, caching, background processing, and backend performance practices • Experience contributing to policy, permissions, or rules-based web application features • Experience writing backend unit and integration tests • Familiarity with Git and collaborative code review processes • Experience using AI coding tools or agents and reviewing their output • Clear written and spoken English communication skills • Ability to collaborate in a remote, asynchronous environment • Ability to manage priorities, work through ambiguity, take ownership, and seek guidance for difficult-to-reverse decisions

🏖️ 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

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