Senior Backend Engineer, GitLab

• Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails
• Professional experience with PostgreSQL or a comparable RDBMS
• Professional experience with Sidekiq
• 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
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization
• Ability to use GitLab
• Comfort and familiarity with our code review process

Desirable

• The Create:Code Review Backend team is responsible for all backend aspects of the Code Review Workflow and GitLab CLI product categories. We work primarily on the Merge Requests features of GitLab
• As a Senior Backend Engineer in Create:Code Review, you will play a critical role in developing and maintaining the backend systems that power Merge Requests, ensuring accuracy, reliability, and speed
• Merge Requests being a core feature of the GitLab platform, you will work on building scalable, high-performance systems that support our customers with collaboration and iteration
• Your contributions will directly impact the code review process for our clients, helping them improve code quality while optimizing for the speed at which code is delivered
• Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your team
• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity
• Exert influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of your team
• 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
• Provide mentorship for Junior and Intermediate Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy
• Confidently ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects
• Improve the engineering projects at GitLab as a project maintainer. For more information regarding timelines and exceptions, see this page
• Conduct Code Review within our Code Review Guidelines and ensure community contributions receive a swift response
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team (“technical debt”), propose and implement solutions
• Participate in Tier 2 or Tier 3 weekday and weekend and occasional night on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues
• Some examples of our projects:
• Duo Code Review - leveraging AI for automated code reviews
• Cells 1.0 - horizontally scaling the largest tables in the GitLab.com database
• Stacked Diffs for the CLI - introducing new development workflows
• Intelligent reviewer selection - improving efficiency of review workflows
• Rapid Diffs - improving performance of diffs rendering