Senior Backend Engineer, GitLab

Data Stores, Tenant Scale

Salary not provided

Plus equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan

GraphQL

Ruby

Rust

Lua

Rails

Ruby on Rails

Senior level

Remote from Europe, UK

One DevOps platform

Job no longer available

One DevOps platform

1001+ employees

B2BSaaSDevOps

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

Plus equity compensation and employee stock purchase plan

GraphQL

Ruby

Rust

Lua

Rails

Ruby on Rails

Senior level

Remote from Europe, UK

1001+ employees

B2BSaaSDevOps

Company mission

To make it so that everyone can contribute. When everyone can contribute, users become contributors and we greatly increase the rate of innovation.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Significant experience with Ruby on Rails
Professional software engineering experience with databases (preferably PostgreSQL) in large production environments
Familiarity with GraphQL
Infrastructure / Deployments knowledge (nice to have)
Interest in scalability / sharding and system programming languages, like Rust, Go, or Lua (nice to have)
Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
You can reason about software, algorithms, and performance from a high level
You are passionate about open source
Strong written communication skills
Self-motivated and have strong organizational skills
You share our values, and work in accordance with those values

What the job involves

You will be part of a group that is changing functionality used by all features in GitLab and consulting with development groups and sub-departments to implement changes required to support our Cells architecture
Develop new features in collaboration with our product management, UX, and frontend teams
Keep changes small and iterate towards the best solution
Reviewing Rails and/or database related changes submitted by other engineers or community contributors
Documenting best practices or patterns to avoid
Developing tooling to proactively inform developers of potential performance issues
Research, design and implement solutions to improve product performance

Our take

GitLab is an open-source collaboration platform for developers. It enables teams to build code quickly from anywhere without compromising on security or quality. GitLab already has an estimated 30M+ users from all over the world.

According to a 2021 GitLab report, 60% of developers can release code 2x faster with DevOps platforms that bring teams together and accelerate processes. It stands out by catering to programmers of all experiences. Gitlab's version control system helps streamline the process of creating, maintaining, and deploying code, whoever you are.

GitLab was in the right place to capitalise on the recent trend toward rapid digital transformation and remote working. This trend is expected to grow, and with it, GitLab's popularity. With its successful 2021 IPO and the patronage of major brands such as Nasdaq and Jaguar Land Rover, GitLab is expected to solidify its position as the go-to platform for development teams.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

15% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.9)

Trustpilot (1.5)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Sep 2019

$268m

SERIES E

Dec 2018

$20m

SERIES D

Total funding: $434.7m

Company benefits

We offer benefits to manage your health, wealth, and well-being regardless of location
Flexibility in schedule to be there for life’s important moments
Equity compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan offered
Generous Paid Time Off

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Sid Sijbrandij

(CEO)

Studied Physics at the University of Twente. Interned at P&G and IBM. Was Lead Architect at the Netherlands' Ministry of Justice from 2009 to 2012. Founded app store Comcoaster in 2008, and then co-founded GitLab in 2012.

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