Intermediate Backend Engineer, SSCS: AI Governance

An overview of this role

As an Intermediate Backend Engineer on the AI Governance team at GitLab, you'll help build a paid product designed for regulated enterprise organizations that need to audit, govern, and demonstrate compliance for AI agent usage inside GitLab. This is product work with direct customer impact. You'll contribute to features that support visibility into how AI agents and related tools are used, and you'll help lay the foundation for governance controls that enterprise customers rely on.

You'll join a small team with clear product direction, technical guidance from experienced backend engineers, and meaningful ownership from the start. This role is well suited for an engineer with experience in backend development who writes solid tests and wants to grow by shipping real features in an evolving product area. You'll work in GitLab's all-remote, asynchronous environment, collaborating across teams as the AI Governance roadmap continues to expand.

What you’ll do

• Implement well-scoped backend features across the AI Governance product area, including event normalization utilities, storage layer enhancements, API endpoint additions, export support, and registry integrations, delivering production-ready work that ships on schedule.
• Build and maintain automated test coverage for your work using RSpec or equivalent tools to improve reliability and support safe, consistent releases.
• Grow your knowledge of AI governance, agent-related product architecture, and integration patterns through hands-on delivery and teamwork so you can contribute more effectively as the roadmap evolves.
• Work closely with senior and staff engineers to deliver solutions that are reliable, maintainable, and aligned with the product direction and release goals.
• Work asynchronously with cross-functional partners and nearby engineering teams working on related governance and AI capabilities to help maintain smooth delivery across teams.
• Take ownership of your scoped work and deliver with a high level of follow-through in a fast-moving product area, closing tasks with clear status updates and consistent execution.

What you’ll bring

• Demonstrated backend development experience building and shipping production features.
• Proficiency with Ruby on Rails and solid fundamentals in PostgreSQL.
• Experience building and maintaining automated test coverage with RSpec or an equivalent testing framework.
• Experience communicating clearly in writing with teammates in an async environment.
• Demonstrated ability to drive scoped work through completion and follow through on commitments.
• Experience with, or exposure to, audit event systems, telemetry pipelines, or compliance-focused tooling.
• Experience learning new technical domains and applying that understanding to product development.
• Additional experience with GraphQL APIs, event-driven architecture patterns, Python, or data-focused databases such as ClickHouse.

About the team

You'll join the AI Governance team within GitLab's Secure, Scale, and Compliance area. We focus on helping organizations gain visibility into and govern AI usage inside GitLab. Our work spans two broad problem spaces: visibility, such as audit events, usage tracking, and observability, and policy controls, such as controls that help protect projects and meet compliance requirements.

We are building this team alongside a parallel AI Governance team, with both groups contributing to different parts of a fast-changing roadmap. You'll work with a distributed group of engineers and collaborate with adjacent AI and Continuous Delivery teams as we integrate governance capabilities more deeply into the platform. It's an interesting team for engineers who want to work on emerging product challenges at the intersection of AI, compliance, and large-scale enterprise software. For more on how related teams work, see Team Handbook Page.