Intermediate Backend Engineer, GitLab
Developer Experience, Developer Tooling
One DevOps platform
Open for applications
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
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.
Role
Who you are
- Experience developing in Ruby
- Experience with test automation frameworks for both front-end and back-end testing
- Experience in designing and developing tools and solutions used across teams
- Development experience in object-oriented programming languages and patterns
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Experience with a front-end charting/visualization library
- Experience using test automation tools. (Selenium, Capybara, Watir)
- Experience using Continuous Integration systems (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins, Travis)
What the job involves
- As a Backend Engineer, Developer Experience at GitLab, you will be responsible for measuring and optimizing the developer feedback loop using iteration to improve workflow efficiency for GitLab projects
- The team uses a quantified approach to identify improvements and measure results of changes and experiments
- The Developer Experience team maximizes the value and throughput of Product Development teams and wider community contributors by improving the developer experience, streamlining the product development processes, and keeping projects secure, compliant, and easy to work on for everyone
- Constantly improve efficiency for our entire engineering team
- Measure what matters: quality of life, efficiency, and toil reduction improvements with quantitative and qualitative measures
- Build partnerships across organizational boundaries to deliver broad efficiency improvements
- The Engineering Productivity team is primarily responsible for 2 KPIs: reducing pipeline duration and increasing pipeline stability for GitLab projects
- We focus on projects with the largest reach and leverage GitLab features wherever possible
- The team aims to provide a system or toolkit that installs GitLab on their workstation
- This system would allow team members and contributors to test changes locally, speeding up the time it takes to make successful contributions
- This sytem manages GitLab requirements, development tools, and databases
- Build automated measurements and dashboards to gain insights into the Engineering organization's productivity to identify improvement opportunities
- Increase contributor and developer productivity by making measurement-driven improvements to the development tools/workflow/processes, then monitor the results and iterate
- Dogfood GitLab product features to improve developer workflow and provide feedback to product teams
- Participate in activities related to Engineering throughput and KPIs
- Develop automated processes for improving label classification hygiene to support product and engineering workflows
- Increase efficiency for wider GitLab Community contributions
- Enhance and add new features to the GitLab product to improve engineer productivity
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 capitalize on the recent trend toward rapid digital transformation and remote working. This trend is expected to continue 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.
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Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2019
$268m
SERIES E
Dec 2018
$20m
SERIES D
Total funding: $433.3m
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 values
- Collaboration - We prioritize things that help us work together effectively, such as assuming positive intent, saying “thanks” and “sorry,” and giving timely feedback.
- Results - We operate with a sense of urgency and bias for action, and we do what we promise — to each other, customers, users, and investors.
- Efficiency - From choosing boring solutions to documenting everything and being managers of one, we strive to make fast progress on the right things.
- Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging - We work to ensure GitLab is a place where people from every background and circumstance feel like they belong and can thrive.
- Iteration - We aim to do the smallest viable and valuable thing, and get it out quickly for feedback.
- Transparency - Everything we do is public by default, from our company handbook to the issue trackers for our product.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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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.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at GitLab
- Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging is woven into our values and everything we do
- GitLab is home to many dedicated Team Member Resource Groups
- GitLab is a global, multi-cultural organization with team members all over the world
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