Senior Backend Engineer, Development Health
GitLab Inc. (company site, opens in a new tab)BengaluruOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 35–55 LPA
Posted 22h ago
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About This Role
- Own and enhance core Development Health backend systems supporting GitLab's engineering workflows, focusing on reliability, maintainability, and automation.
- Build, monitor, and improve automation and tooling for engineering health metrics such as flaky and slow test detection and CI/CD pipeline alerting.
- Analyze data and collaborate with product teams to identify workflow pain points and drive measurable engineering health improvements.
Minimum Requirements
- Substantial experience as a backend or tooling engineer with end-to-end ownership of production systems.
- Strong proficiency in Ruby or demonstrated ability to ramp up quickly on it.
- Experience maintaining or modernizing legacy codebases safely.
- Work Experience Required: Not explicitly mentioned in the JD.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Proven ability to work independently on backend systems that improve developer productivity and CI/CD tooling.
- Comfortable working with CI/CD, APIs, automation at scale, and analyzing engineering metrics data to guide prioritization.
- Experienced in code review, mentoring intermediate engineers, and documenting legacy automation systems for maintainability.