Backend Engineer, GitLab
Create: Source Code Experience, Ruby
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
- Professional experience building backend web applications, services, or application programming interfaces, with experience using Ruby and GraphQL
- An understanding of relational databases, structured query language, data modeling, caching, background processing, and backend performance practices
- Experience contributing to user-facing workflows and maintaining their underlying systems
- Experience writing backend unit and integration tests, with familiarity with the testing pyramid, Git, and collaborative code review processes
- Experience using artificial intelligence coding agents and reviewing their output, or an interest in building these skills in a complex monorepo
- Clear written and spoken English communication skills, including sharing useful status updates in a remote, asynchronous environment
- The ability to manage assigned priorities, work through ambiguity, take ownership of your work, and seek guidance when needed
- We welcome candidates with different levels and types of experience. Many successful candidates don't meet every requirement. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiting team to assess your application
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Source Code Experience team within GitLab's Create stage. You'll help make everyday source code workflows clear, reliable, and efficient for people working across GitLab projects. As artificial intelligence agents increasingly write and manage code alongside people, you'll build backend capabilities and interfaces that support trustworthy collaboration between people and agents
- You'll work in one of GitLab's oldest and most complex product areas, using Ruby and GraphQL to improve critical source code experiences across GitLab.com, self-managed instances, and GitLab Dedicated. The Source Code group is responsible for the backend and frontend aspects of the product categories within Source Code
- With support from experienced team members, you'll help maintain high reliability through performance and structured query language tuning, caching, rate limiting, testing, observability, and resiliency. You'll collaborate with product management, product design, testing, security, user experience research, technical writing, Gitaly, Code Review, and other Source Code teams to deliver reliable and performant systems
- Develop secure, well-tested, performant features and improvements using Ruby and GraphQL
- Work through complex requirements and legacy constraints to deliver clear solutions while protecting the reliability of this critical system
- Design and maintain backend services, application programming interfaces, data models, and business logic that support intuitive source code workflows
- Collaborate across functions and teams, both asynchronously and synchronously, and involve domain experts when their input will improve the outcome
- Use artificial intelligence agents for well-scoped work when they can speed up delivery without sacrificing quality, and critically review their output
- Write maintainable code that follows GitLab's standards and contribute to constructive code reviews
- Help strengthen reliability by monitoring production health metrics, participating in Tier 2 on-call, troubleshooting incidents, contributing to root cause analysis, and improving observability and resiliency
- Share knowledge through code review, technical documentation, and everyday collaboration while learning from others
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
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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: $434.1m
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
(Co-Founder & Executive Chair)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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