Intermediate Backend Engineer

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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.

The Analytics Instrumentation Group is part of the Analytics section, focused on providing GitLab teams with data-driven product insights. We build data collection platforms that enable product teams to understand user behavior and make evidence-based decisions through privacy-conscious instrumentation that captures product usage throughout the user lifecycle.

This is a generalist role that involves working across our technology stack as you solve diverse instrumentation challenges. You'll work with the Ruby on Rails GitLab codebase, Go and Python satellite services, data pipelines, and AI tool integration. You'll build Internal Events, Service Ping, and Usage Billing systems that unlock new revenue streams and provide actionable insights to Product, Engineering, and Customer Success teams.

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• Build and maintain GitLab's product usage and billing instrumentation framework and APIs.
• Design and implement data collection architecture and compliance tools.
• Maintain the Internal Analytics Platform, ServicePing, Metrics Dictionary and VersionApp.
• Support product and customer-facing teams in implementing and operationalizing data collection for decision-making.
• Monitor platform health through alerts and dashboards.
• Collaborate across engineering teams to support their analytics needs.

• Proficiency in Ruby/Rails with ability to work in Python, Go and JavaScript as needed.
• Strong written and verbal communication for remote, asynchronous collaboration.
• Comfort working with APIs, data pipelines, and developer tooling.
• Problem-solving mindset, willing to tackle challenges across different technologies and domains.
• Mindset for leveraging AI tools to enhance productivity and solve problems creatively.
• Ability to work in frontend codebases when needed.

Interest in AI orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph) and curiosity about AI agent systems.

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) preferred.
• Experience with data warehousing & data engineering tools (Snowflake/ClickHouse/dbt/Airflow) preferred.

About the team

The Analytics Instrumentation team operates at the intersection of Product, Analytics and customer facing teams, providing data collection infrastructure that serves engineering teams across GitLab. We're a distributed team of generalist engineers who tackle complex problems spanning the GitLab codebase, JS, Go and Python satellite services, data pipelines, and AI tool integration.

We embody GitLab's CREDIT values - collaborating transparently across teams, delivering measurable results through efficient iteration, while building inclusive solutions that respect user privacy. Our work enables data-driven decision making across the organization.

We're involved in diverse projects from event data collection and privacy compliance tools to AI-powered analytics frameworks that help GitLab teams understand their users better.

• 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 
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

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