Intermediate Backend Engineer, GitLab

• Professional experience with Go in a large scale environment
• Experience in scaling SaaS products
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers and clear status updates
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values

Desirable

• As a Backend Engineer in our Verify: Runner group, you'll play a key role on a team whose mission it is to create a build agent that works seamlessly on tomorrow's market-leading computing platforms and the tools to eliminate CI build fleet operational complexity at an enterprise scale
• The features in our Verify: Runner group allow our customers to run their GitLab CI operations on a variety of platforms and ecosystems
• Our Verify: Runner group is primarily responsible for the GitLab-Runner. The GitLab-Runner is the interface between the rest of GitLab and a user's CI infrastructure. Whether CI is running on a cluster of Raspberry Pi’s, a super-computer, or, as in the case with GitLab.com, thousands of virtual machines running in the cloud - it’s the GitLab-Runner that makes this happen
• Each week GitLab-Runners process millions of jobs for GitLab.com, and our docker images are downloaded 100s-of-millions of times
• Some of the things we have recently been working on include:
• Expanding our Hosted Runner offering
• Implementing CI Steps
• Improving the GitLab Runner Kubernetes Executor
• Contribute to the overall direction of GitLab-Runner development
• Focus your efforts on GitLab-Runner scalability
• Help scale the infrastructure of the GitLab-Runners powering GitLab.com
• Solve technical problems of medium scope and complexity
• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review
• Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions
• Confidently ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members
• Collaborate with the team on larger projects
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
• Participate in Tier 2 or Tier 3 weekday, weekend, and/or occasional night on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues