Staff Backend Engineer, GitLab
Ruby or Go, Developer Experience
+ Equity + ESPP
One DevOps platform
Open for applications
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Equity + ESPP
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
- Strong proficiency in developing in Ruby or Golang (Ruby preferred)
- Strong experience working on public cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and managed compute platform (e.g, Google Cloud Run)
- Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code & configuration management (Terraform & Ansible)
- Track record building developer tools that improve velocity, quality, and code health
- Experience with comprehensive testing approaches and product launches
- Strong experience with software design and architecture
- Technical leadership experience setting direction and guiding project teams
- Background in engineering productivity, developer tooling, and test automation
- Experience managing data and building visualization with analytics platforms (e.g, Snowflake)
What the job involves
- As a Staff Engineer in GitLab's Developer Experience organization, you'll help drive engineering excellence at GitLab by creating tools that measure, analyze, and optimize development workflows and lead initiatives that enhance developer productivity
- Contribute to the overall direction of the Developer Experience stage and Engineering-wide developer productivity initiatives through cross-team collaboration and technical leadership
- Teach, mentor and grow engineers across teams while providing technical guidance aligned with strategic objectives
- Plan and execute improvements with a 12-month roadmap that supports stage-level OKRs
- Solve complex, ambiguous technical problems across teams, innovating through experimentation and boldly tackling large-scale challenges
- Partner with the Management team, and enable Staff Engineers to engage on stage-level aspects of larger initiatives
- Propose technical implementations that support architectural changes that solve scaling and performance problems
- Interact with customers and other external stakeholders as a consultant and spokesperson for the work of your stage
- Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions
- Ship features and improvements independently with minimal guidance while mentoring other team members
- Provide architectural leadership for improving merge request cycle time, CI/CD infrastructure, and development environments
- Drive technical solutions for code quality, performance optimization, and test framework enhancements
- Implement metrics and instrumentation to guide data-driven feature development
- Align stage level technical direction within Developer Experience and also across DevSecOps lifecycle stages
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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: $434.6m
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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