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Backend Engineer, GitLab Orbit
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Remote, Canada; Remote, United States
Our take: The real work here is building and operating a Rust graph data service, owning well-scoped components while learning distributed data systems and hardening reliability.
If you light up at owning a slice of a Rust backend and reasoning carefully about how graph data flows through it, this is your kind of work. You will build and harden a Knowledge Graph service that feeds AI agents and analytics, learn distributed data systems as you go, and work with senior engineers who care about doing it properly. It suits someone who thrives on clear ownership, written async collaboration, and getting correctness right the first time.
Needs
- building backend software
- systems design
- graph data modelling
- integrating systems
- monitoring and tuning
- writing docs
Rewards
- real component ownership
- shaping architecture
- learning new domains
Demands
- on-call rotation
- remote async work
- cross-team collaboration
- high ownership
Grows
- rust at depth
- distributed data systems
- incident response
- trade-off reasoning
Values
- code craftsmanship
- rigour on data
- learning culture
- sustainable shipping
Drains
- runbooks and readiness
- occasional ruby patches
- alert tuning
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