Backend Engineer, GitLab

• Ruby on Rails professional experience (2+ years preferred)
• SQL and database skills (PostgreSQL experience a plus)
• Proven experience building web applications and APIs
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for achieving consensus and 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
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility
• You are familiar with working in an open source environment
• You are comfortable working in a cross-functional organization
• You are able to thrive in a fully remote organization
• You are able to use GitLab
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values

Desirable

• The Create: Code Creations team builds AI-powered tools that suggest intelligent code to developers, enhancing their efficiency, and enabling outstanding software
• As an Intermediate Engineer, your journey involves immersing yourself in our innovative codebase, contributing high-quality code, and actively participating in collaborative code reviews
• Embrace the opportunity to work alongside experienced team members, honing your skills and contributing to a culture of continuous learning
• Take on challenges by investigating and resolving technical issues, demonstrating your problem-solving prowess
• Engage in feature development, collaborating with cross-functional teams to bring ideas to life
• Your role is pivotal in shaping the future of our product, ensuring it meets the highest standards of quality and innovation.
• As you grow in your technical journey, you'll play a key role in mentoring junior team members and contributing to the collective knowledge through documentation.
• 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 moderate scope and complexity
• 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
• Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around specific projects and community contributions
• Ship small 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