Backend Engineer, GitLab Orbit
GitLab · Engineering · Mid · 21d ago
$115k – $162k
per year
Open to candidates living in Canada, United States.
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Open to candidates living in Canada, United States.
“Remote, Canada; Remote, United States”
Team members work remotely across Canada and the United States across different time zones.
- Async-first
- The Orbit team emphasizes written communication and async collaboration over live meetings across time zones.
- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
- No company-paid get-togethers mentioned.
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About the role
As an Intermediate Backend Engineer on the GitLab Orbit team, you will help develop and maintain a high-performance graph data service in Rust that powers GitLab Duo agents, analytics, and architecture features across various deployments. You will take ownership of components like SDLC indexing and query pipelines, improve system reliability and observability, and integrate analytical data workloads using ClickHouse and NATS JetStream.
What you'll do
- Implement and iterate on backend features in the Rust-based Knowledge Graph service, including query engines and indexing flows.
- Maintain integrations between Knowledge Graph and GitLab Rails, Data Insights Platform, and Duo Agent Platform.
- Contribute to system design discussions with an emphasis on reliability, scalability, and maintainability for graph workloads.
- Improve operational maturity by enhancing metrics, runbooks, logging, alerts, and participating in on-call rotations.
- Collaborate asynchronously across product, data, infrastructure, and security teams while leveraging AI-assisted workflows.
What you bring
- Professional experience building and maintaining production backend systems with a focus on reliability.
- Proficiency in at least one modern backend language and strong interest/readiness to deliver in a Rust-first codebase.
- Exposure to distributed data or analytics systems such as OLAP databases (ClickHouse) or messaging systems (NATS, Kafka).
- Interest in graph data modeling, property graphs, and complex traversal query patterns.
- Strong written communication skills and comfort working in an asynchronous, all-remote setting.
About GitLab
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