Teams at GitLab

Own and evolve GitLab’s authorization systems across its Ruby on Rails monolith and next-generation Rust policy engine. Design fine-grained permissions for users, tokens, roles, and AI agents; secure GraphQL and REST APIs; lead feature-flagged rollouts and migrations; improve performance and reliability; and collaborate across authentication, platform, AI, and modular-service teams in a distributed asynchronous environment.

Build, test, ship, and operate production backend features using Ruby/Rails, Go, or other modern languages. Design APIs, background jobs, integrations, data models, migrations, and services while ensuring security, performance, reliability, and observability. Review code, investigate failures, reduce technical debt, provide operational support, collaborate asynchronously with product and engineering teams, and use AI coding tools responsibly.

Provides technical leadership across teams by designing and delivering large-scale backend initiatives, modernizing monolithic systems, defining architecture and engineering standards, and improving reliability, security, observability, and operability. The role establishes Go and Kubernetes patterns, guides Rust adoption, participates in incident response, mentors engineers, influences platform roadmaps, and leads safe adoption of AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows.