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Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby), Production Engineering:Tenant Controls
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Remote, Poland
Our take: The real work here is designing and evolving backend systems for rate limiting on a platform millions depend on, while mentoring engineers and owning reliability in a remote, async team.
If you love shaping backend systems that millions of people lean on, this is a place to design modular architectures, tune performance, and make the kind of trade-offs that only a senior engineer gets trusted with. You will own rate limiting across GitLab.com, mentor the engineers around you, and get to experiment with agentic AI in real production workflows. It is remote-first and asynchronous, so your clear writing and sound judgment matter more than your hours in a chair.
Needs
- building backend features
- systems design
- performance tuning
- incident response
- mentoring engineers
- async writing
Rewards
- technical direction
- impact at scale
- tinkering with ai
- learning new tech
- unblocking others
Demands
- complex scope
- cross-team work
- architectural trade-offs
- on-call ownership
Grows
- root cause analysis
- modular boundaries
- coaching engineers
- process design
Values
- craftsmanship
- pragmatism
- remote-first
- autonomy
- rigour
Drains
- standards and testing
- migrating old systems
- evaluating ai tools
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