Opportunity overview
What you should know
We checked this opportunity from GitLab. It is listed as Canada.
The work location is Remote — Canada. Employer-stated compensation: Salary not included in the job posting.
Job description
About this role
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, trusted by more than 50 million registered users. This Senior Backend Engineer role works on Flow Registry features across the Duo Workflow Service and the GitLab backend, and is remote within Canada.
Responsibilities
- Develop, ship and maintain secure, well-tested, performant Flow Registry features across the Duo Workflow Service and the GitLab monolith backend.
- Collaborate with Product Management, UX, frontend, backend and AI specialists to refine requirements and deliver iterative improvements.
- Design, implement and review GraphQL and REST APIs, related backend logic and clear contracts with frontend clients.
- Improve automated testing with RSpec and other frameworks to strengthen quality, reliability and developer feedback loops.
- Share standards, patterns and lessons with other engineers to support responsible AI integration.
- Participate in Tier 2 on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues and contribute to root-cause analysis.
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Qualifications and requirements
- Experience building and maintaining production Python applications with LangChain and LangGraph, including background jobs, APIs and data models.
- Experience designing and shipping AI-powered backend features, with sound judgment about large language model limitations.
- Proficiency designing or extending REST and GraphQL APIs with attention to scalability, maintainability and backward compatibility.
- Strong SQL skills and familiarity with relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
- Comfort working across the stack in a mature codebase and addressing performance bottlenecks.
- Familiarity with JavaScript and Vue frontend development and user experience principles.
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Why you may be eligible
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How this listing was checked
- Source status
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- Employer or source
- GitLab
- Source checked
- September 7, 2026
- Application destination
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- Work setup and location
- Remote · Remote — Canada
- Who can apply
- Canada · Confirmed by source
- Pay
- Not stated by employer
- Deadline
- Not stated by employer
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