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Backend Engineer (Ruby), AI Engineering: Agent Observability
Remote, Canada · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 14 days ago
PythonRubyVue.jsRailsGitSQLPostgreSQLGraphQLRESTAgentic AIRecruitingIntellectual PropertyTest AutomationCommunication
About the role
- Agent Observability is a new functional team within the Agent Execution group.
- The team itself will initially consist of three engineers across AMER and EMEA timezones.
- The whole Agent Execution group consists of 8+ engineers.
Responsibilities
- Develop, ship, and maintain features and improvements for Agent Observability and Interactions across both the GitLab monolith backend and the AI gateway in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
- Collaborate with Product Management, UX, frontend, backend, and AI specialists to refine requirements and deliver high-quality, iterative product enhancements.
- Design, implement, and review GraphQL, REST APIs and related backend logic, ensuring reliability, scalability, and clear contracts with frontend clients.
- Experience building and maintaining production applications with Ruby on Rails, including work with background jobs, APIs, and data models.
Requirements
- Proficiency in designing or extending REST and/or GraphQL APIs with attention to scalability, maintainability, and backward compatibility.
Nice to have
- Comfortable working across the stack in a mature codebase.
- Familiarity with Python backends and/or Vue frontends a plus.
- Strong practical experience working with AI tooling on a daily basis.
- Experience designing and shipping AI-powered backend features and integrations is a plus.
Compensation
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Benefits
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Openness to learning, collaborating in an async-first, distributed team, and applying transferable skills from related technologies or domains.
Company info
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- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
- GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps.
Equal opportunity
- GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.
- See also GitLab's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law.
- equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.
- If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.
Visa & Work Authorization
- sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family med
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