Senior Backend Engineer, GitLab
Ruby, Plan: Portfolio Experience
$139.2-235.2k
+ Equity Compensation + Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Salary is benchmarked based on US rates and may vary depending on the location
One DevOps platform
Posted today
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$139.2-235.2k
+ Equity Compensation + Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Salary is benchmarked based on US rates and may vary depending on the location
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
- Experience representing the user perspective while working through trade-offs with product managers, engineers, and users
- Experience leading projects involving several engineers over multiple months and supporting others through thoughtful code reviews, feedback, hiring, career development, and mentoring
- Full stack experience with a current backend focus, including proficiency with Ruby and Ruby on Rails and an understanding of how complex modern frontends work
- Strong PostgreSQL skills and experience improving database performance at scale through query and write optimization, indexing, denormalization, and partitioning
- Experience designing and evolving GraphQL and/or RESTful APIs with attention to scalability, backward compatibility, and clear contracts with frontend clients
- Experience improving large automated test suites, including the performance and reliability of the tests themselves
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for an asynchronous, distributed environment
- Experience integrating artificial intelligence into development workflows. Experience building artificial intelligence-powered features or working with Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, or Python is a plus
- We welcome candidates with different backgrounds and transferable skills. If you're excited about this role but don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply
- Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application
What the job involves
- We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for GitLab's Portfolio Experience team
- You'll be an experienced product engineer who incorporates user needs into feature decisions and brings full stack experience, with a current focus on backend
- You'll spend as much time understanding user needs and shaping how features should work as you do building them, working directly with product, users, and open source contributors
- You'll help evolve the backend architecture that powers the work items platform, which must serve millions of work items in a single user's view across tens of thousands of groups and projects
- Collaborate with product and other engineers to shape requirements, understand user needs, and break complex projects into shippable iterations
- Design and implement backend and real-time features in the GitLab monolith, including GraphQL and RESTful APIs and subscriptions, with a focus on performance, reliability, and user impact
- Build and evolve portfolio planning capabilities, including work item hierarchy, status rollup, and capacity planning
- Improve PostgreSQL performance at scale through query and write optimization, indexing, denormalization, partitioning, and moving suitable workloads to Elasticsearch or ClickHouse
- Create proofs of concept for complex work, maintain extensive automated test coverage, and support safe rollouts with feature flags and strong observability
- Mentor engineers and open source contributors through code reviews, pairing, regular feedback, contributor issues, and hackathons
- Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, contribute to root cause analysis, and improve the team's development and review processes
- About the team: We are a team of 4 - 2x Backend Engineers, 2x Frontend Engineers located across Europe and Canada. We own the work item hierarchy, including Epic, Issue, and Task relationships, and top-down planning capabilities such as status rollup and capacity planning. We work async-first in two-week iterations, with retrospectives and a weekly sync
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
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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: $434.7m
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 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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