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
• Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application

Desirable

• As a Backend Engineer in our Verify: CI Functions Platform team, you'll play a key role on a team whose mission is to re-architect GitLab Runner to support ultra-scale CI/CD operations and build the foundational platform for CI Functions (formerly CI/CD Steps)
• The CI Functions Platform team is part of the Verify: Runner organization and works in parallel with the Verify: Runner Core team to enable GitLab CI/CD to scale to support 100,000+ developers while providing composable, reusable execution components that make CI/CD pipelines easier to maintain and more powerful
• Our Verify: CI Functions Platform team is responsible for the architectural foundation that enables GitLab Runner to execute reusable CI/CD steps at enterprise scale
• CI Functions allow customers to compose their CI/CD jobs from reusable, testable components rather than complex scripts, similar to how GitHub Actions and drone.io provide composability
• The Step Runner component we build executes these functions across various platforms and ecosystems, whether running on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, or on-premise installations
• Some of the things we have recently been working on include:
• Developing the Step Runner
• CI Functions syntax and implementation
• Runner re-architecture for ultra-scale
• Integration with GitLab Runner for steps execution
• What you'll do:
• Contribute to the overall direction of GitLab Runner re-architecture and CI Functions development
• Focus your efforts on building a scalable foundation for CI Functions execution
• Help architect and build the Step Runner component that executes CI Functions across diverse infrastructure
• 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 and coordinate with the Runner Core team on parallel scaling efforts
• 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
• The team is made up of experienced Engineers with a passion for solving problems and creating usable solutions; located across different time zones, async communication and manager of one is core to how we continue to deliver value to users
• The Verify:Runner team cares deeply about GitLab’s core values and has principles that align with those values
• The team regularly interacts with community contributors, customers, and other GitLab teams as we strive to create lovable DevSecOps features