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An overview of this role:
As a Staff Backend Engineer on the GitLab Knowledge Graph team, you'll help design, scale, and operate a high‑impact graph data service that underpins agents, analytics, and architecture‑level features across GitLab.com, Dedicated, and Self‑Managed deployments. You'll partner with a small, senior Rust‑first team to ship reliable graph capabilities and make them easy for other teams and agents to use.
The Knowledge Graph service is a distributed SDLC indexing system. It builds a property graph from GitLab SDLC (software development lifecycle) and code data using ClickHouse, NATS JetStream, and the Data Insights Platform. It also exposes secure graph queries and MCP tools for AI agents and product features. In this role, you’ll own core parts of the system end to end: shaping the architecture, hardening multi‑tenant behavior and performance, and making it straightforward for other teams and agents to consume graph capabilities.
In your first year, you’ll take clear ownership of major areas of the service (for example, the graph query engine, SDLC indexing, or multi‑tenant authorization), reduce single points of failure through better runbooks and shared context, and raise the bar on how we design, build, and operate analytical servi