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Senior Backend Engineer, Development Health

GitLab

  • Bangalore, India (in office)
  • Full Time
  • First seen 4 Nov 2026
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GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps.

GitLab is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer, Development Health within its Platforms Engineering team in Bangalore, India. The details below summarise the employer's own posting; applications happen on GitLab's official careers channel, not on GetFirstJob.

What the work involves

  • Own and evolve core Development Health systems, from design through production.
  • Improve the reliability, maintainability, and test coverage of long-lived automation, and reduce reliance on undocumented knowledge by documenting and simplifying legacy systems.
  • Partner with engineering managers and product teams to identify workflow pain points and turn them into well-scoped, measurable improvements.
  • Work with data to show whether changes improve engineering health, and use it to prioritize.
  • Mentor intermediate engineers through code review, design feedback.

What the employer asks for

  • Substantial experience as a backend or tooling engineer, with a track record of owning production systems end to end.
  • Strong proficiency in Ruby, or the ability to become productive quickly.
  • Experience maintaining or modernizing legacy codebases safely.
  • Comfort with CI/CD systems, application programming interfaces (APIs), and automation at scale.
  • Independent problem-solving and clear, concise written communication: you spot problems early, raise risks proactively, and drive work to completion without close direction.

Pay, location and application

The listing does not disclose salary, so raise compensation early in the process. The role is in office in Bangalore, India. The employer's Greenhouse board shows this listing last updated on 2026-11-04; it was first seen and checked as open on 4 November 2026.

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