Backend Engineer, Knowledge Graph – Rust

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🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

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💵 $115.2k - $162k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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GitLab

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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

• Implement and iterate on backend features in the Rust-based Knowledge Graph service, including query engine, SDLC and code indexing flows, and API endpoints • Maintain integrations with GitLab Rails, the Data Insights Platform, Siphon, NATS, ClickHouse, and GitLab Duo Agent Platform • Contribute to system design discussions and document decisions focused on reliability, scalability, and maintainability • Improve operational maturity through metrics, logging, runbooks, alerts, readiness tasks, and appropriate on-call participation • Collaborate asynchronously with product, data, infrastructure, security, and AI teams • Use AI-assisted development workflows responsibly and share effective practices • Participate in code reviews, knowledge-sharing sessions, and pairing • Contribute across the stack, including occasional Ruby work and small frontend changes

🎯 Requirements

• Professional experience building and maintaining backend systems in production • Proficiency in at least one modern backend language and strong interest in Rust, with prior Rust experience or evidence of quickly ramping up • Exposure to distributed data or analytics systems, such as OLAP databases, Kafka- or NATS-style messaging, or CDC pipelines, or strong motivation to develop those skills • Interest in graph data modeling and query patterns, including property graphs, n-hop traversals, and aggregations • Practical experience or strong interest using AI tools in day-to-day development • Ability to learn new languages and frameworks such as Ruby, Go, or TypeScript/Vue • Solid system design fundamentals, including reasoning about trade-offs and architectural decisions • Comfort working in a low-process, high-ownership environment and communicating clearly in writing across time zones • Ability to work in an all-remote team

🏖️ 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