Staff Backend Engineer, GitLab
Software Supply Chain Security: Compliance
$131.6-282k
Salary range is based on California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota. Offers equity.
One DevOps platform
Posted today
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$131.6-282k
Salary range is based on California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota. Offers equity.
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
- Extensive experience architecting and maintaining large-scale Ruby on Rails applications, with deep expertise in backend systems and advanced testing strategies with RSpec
- Strong technical leadership in API design and implementation, with particular expertise in GraphQL API architecture and backend performance optimization
- Expert-level understanding of database design and optimization, particularly with PostgreSQL, including experience with performance tuning, scaling, and complex query optimization
- Deep expertise in backend security principles and experience implementing compliance-focused security measures in enterprise applications
- Experience designing and implementing event-driven architectures and background processing systems
- Advanced knowledge of caching strategies, query optimization, and backend performance tuning
- Proven ability to influence technical decisions across teams and communicate complex architectural solutions to various stakeholders
- Track record of mentoring backend engineers and driving adoption of best practices across engineering teams
- Experience leading technical initiatives that span multiple backend systems or services
- Strong understanding of compliance requirements in enterprise software development
What the job involves
- As a Staff Backend Engineer in our Compliance group, you'll provide technical leadership in maturing enterprise-grade Compliance features which have a direct impact on GitLab's enterprise sales success
- The Compliance group's mission is to provide visibility into an organization's compliance posture within GitLab and provide tools for organizations to identify non-compliant activities and scope enforcement of compliance requirements
- The compliance group is focused on two key areas; Compliance Management and Audit Events
- Our biggest challenge is to design and implement a scalable backend architecture that will support our ambitious expansion plans
- As a Staff Engineer, you'll be instrumental in defining the technical strategy and architectural decisions that will shape the future of our compliance features, with a particular focus on backend systems, data processing, and API design
- Drive technical excellence by defining and implementing backend architectural solutions that solve complex compliance challenges at scale
- Lead the technical direction of the Compliance group's backend systems and play a pivotal role in shaping GitLab's Compliance offering through strategic technical decisions
- Design and implement robust, scalable APIs and data models that support compliance features
- Identify and proactively address technical debt while implementing solutions that improve backend performance, reliability, and maintainability
- Represent GitLab in public communications about compliance initiatives and interact with enterprise customers as a technical spokesperson
- Mentor backend engineers across the team to help them grow technically and remove impediments to their autonomy
- Define and maintain internal standards for backend code quality, security, and performance that impact both the Compliance group and adjacent teams
- Solve complex backend technical problems involving data processing, system integration, and scalability
- Drive innovation in our backend systems by experimenting with new approaches to complex compliance challenges
- Provide technical leadership in planning sessions and architectural discussions to ensure backend scalability, performance, and maintainability
- Some examples of our projects:
- Compliance Frameworks
- Adherence Report
- Streaming audit events
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: $432.7m
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 values
- Collaboration - We prioritize things that help us work together effectively, such as assuming positive intent, saying “thanks” and “sorry,” and giving timely feedback.
- Results - We operate with a sense of urgency and bias for action, and we do what we promise — to each other, customers, users, and investors.
- Efficiency - From choosing boring solutions to documenting everything and being managers of one, we strive to make fast progress on the right things.
- Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging - We work to ensure GitLab is a place where people from every background and circumstance feel like they belong and can thrive.
- Iteration - We aim to do the smallest viable and valuable thing, and get it out quickly for feedback.
- Transparency - Everything we do is public by default, from our company handbook to the issue trackers for our product.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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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.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at GitLab
- Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging is woven into our values and everything we do
- GitLab is home to many dedicated Team Member Resource Groups
- GitLab is a global, multi-cultural organization with team members all over the world
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