# Intermediate Backend Engineer, AMER at GitLab

- Company: GitLab
- What the company does: The intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling teams and agents to ship trusted software at enterprise scale. Backed by General Catalyst and Khosla.
- Company website: https://about.gitlab.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Remote, Canada; Remote, United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-17
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/8773006002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/gitlab-intermediate-backend-engineer-amer/

## About the role

As an Intermediate Backend Engineer, you will take backend features and improvements from clarifying the problem through shipping them and following up in production. You will work within a product area, partnering with Product Management, Frontend, Infrastructure, and Security to deliver predictably and contribute to the quality, security, performance, and maintainability of shared backend code and services.

## What they're looking for

- Production Go services, APIs, concurrency, profiling, or gRPC
- Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, or cloud deployment
- Rust, particularly for systems, security, performance, or platform work
- PostgreSQL, schema evolution, caching, queues, messaging, or event-driven workflows
- Observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts
- Contributing to a modular monolith, bounded context, shared component, or independently operated service

Tags: Engineering