Senior Backend Engineer, GitLab
Ruby, Organizations
+ Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
One DevOps platform
Job no longer available
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+ 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 on the Organizations team, you will play a critical role in building out our Organizations feature
- This feature allows for centralized management of GitLab groups and projects, and it plays a key role in enabling our horizontally scalable Cells architecture
- You will also work on improvements to GitLab’s groups, projects, and user profile functionality, all of which are foundational parts of the GitLab platform
- 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
- Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity
- Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment
- 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
- Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around specific projects and community contributions
- Ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects
- 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
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: $433.3m
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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