Senior Backend Engineer

Title: Senior Backend Engineer, Manage: Import and Integrate

Location: Remote

Backend Engineers at GitLab work on our product. This includes the open-source version of GitLab, the enterprise editions, and the GitLab.com service. They work with peers on teams dedicated to areas of the product. They work together with product managers, designers, and front-end engineers towards common goals.

The Manage Stage handles everything you need to manage your GitLab workspace. Starting with Importing your data from competitor tools and allowing users to quickly join GitLab with the right level of access while adhering to compliance regulations and procedures and ultimately allowing you to fully implement your DevOps processes and be able to monitor your DevOps adoption and manage your Value Stream.

Responsibilities

• 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 in troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.

Requirements

• Ability to use GitLab.
• Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails or the language required by the specialty.
• Professional experience with any other technologies that may be required by the specialty.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, is sufficient for 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.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates.
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• 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.
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization.

Compensation

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