Intermediate Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails), Analytics Instrumentation

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GitLab

Remote, APAC; Remote, Canada; Remote, EMEA; Remote, Netherlands; Remote, United Kingdom

Remote

Posted January 23, 2026

Job Description

GitLab is an open-core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating human progress. Our platform unites teams and organizations, breaking down barriers and redefining what's possible in software development. Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise and Duo Agent Platform, customers get AI benefits at every stage of the SDLC.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

An overview of this role

As an Intermediate Backend Engineer on our Analytics Instrumentation team, you'll help build GitLab's product analytics capabilities from the ground up. You'll design and develop intuitive backend services that power data-driven insights and position GitLab as a single platform for product analytics. You'll own critical backend systems and APIs that support scalable event collection, analytics workflows, and internal tooling.

What you'll do

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.

What you'll bring

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 analy