Intermediate Backend Engineer, GitLab
Ruby on Rails/PostgreSQL, CI Platform
+ Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
One DevOps platform
Open for applications
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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 with Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL
- Experience working with a platform or complex application (Large scale is a bonus)
- Familiarity building and deploying software with CI/CD or other internal tooling
- Familiarity with distributed, scalable and reliable systems
- A user of modern DevOps platforms. (GitLab is a bonus.)
- Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
- Experience working in a highly agile, iterative software development process
- 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
What the job involves
- As a Backend Engineer joining our team, you will work on the foundational layer of GitLab Continuous Integration (CI)
- Our team is largely involved in scaling CI, along with ensuring our CI features remain performant and reliable by driving improvement to critical database infrastructure
- As many of our efforts are Engineering led, you will also have an opportunity to provide input towards our CI data management strategy
- The CI Platform group was created in 2024, as part of the Verify stage, upon evaluating that we needed a dedicated team to work on the operational aspects of GitLab CI to ensure our platform remains best-in-class
- The team has been largely focused on partitioning CI/CD Data and has started to explore aspects of CI Data retention and improved data management
- You will get to dive into some complex technical challenges and collaborate with our infrastructure teams to strategize on solving these exciting challenges related to how we scale and grow CI
- Implement performance and scale improvements for GitLab CI in a fast-paced, iterative environment
- Collaborate with other stakeholders within Engineering (e.g. other Database or Infrastructure teams) to set best practices in managing a sustainable platform and to maintain a high bar for quality
- Advocate for improvements to reliability, security, and performance
- Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review
- Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team (“technical debt”), propose and implement solutions
- Ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects
- Work with your team to assess technical feasibility and discuss how best to iterate on complex problems. This might involve working on proof-of-concept proposals to help guide technical discussions
- Take ownership of what we build, focusing on stability and availability
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: $434.4m
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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