Senior Backend Engineer, Product Analytics

Title: Senior Backend Engineer, Product Analytics

Location: Remote

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We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for the Product Analytics group. The Product Analytics group is focused on building an analytics platform that closes the DevOps loop: driving insight by measuring user value, connected to the value that GitLab already delivers as a DevOps platform.

You will be closely collaborating with counterparts from Engineering, UX, Quality, and Product. You will work across the backend (Ruby on Rails, Go), interfacing with frontend (Vue.js) parts of our application.

Part of our mission is building a scalable platform capable of handling billions of events, making them available to query upon to drive insight. Experience with managing infrastructure and technologies like Kubernetes and Helm will be greatly advantageous in this position.

Learn more about the Analytics section, the Product Analytics group, and where we’re headed.

This position is 100% remote.

What you’ll do

• Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
• Assess, design, and build solutions to address use cases involving the analysis and interpretation of highly complex data to arrive at actionable recommendations
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (e.g. UX) 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 large 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
• Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around specific projects and community contributions
• Confidently 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

What you’ll bring

• You have a growth mindset: embracing ambiguity and seeking opportunities to challenge yourself and continuously grow your skills
• You have professional experience with PostgreSQL, ClickHouse or similar technologies in large production environments
• Significant experience with Ruby on Rails in a production environment at scale. Proficiency in other coding languages (Golang, Python, Javascript) are a bonus.
• 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
• You have demonstrated the ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term. Within the last 5 years, you’ve worked at one company for at least 2 years.
• 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

Bonus qualifications

• Experience managing infrastructure in a Cloud-native environment, using Kubernetes, Helm, etc.
• Experience working with data and analytics technologies, e.g., Snowplow, Kafka, ClickHouse, Vector, Segment, etc.
• Experience building high-volume and high-throughput data analytics solutions for product-minded organizations
• Experience working with modern frontend frameworks (eg. React, Vue.js, Angular)
• Experience in a peak performance organization, preferably a tech startup/company
• Experience with the GitLab product as a user or contributor
• Experience working in a global, distributed, or otherwise multi-cultural team
• Enterprise software company experience
• Experience scaling a successful SaaS product
• Computer science education or equivalent experience
• Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools

Resources:

• Analytics Section Direction
• Product Analytics Group
• Engineering Handbook
• Engineering Workflow

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget
• Parental leave
• Home office support

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.

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.

Colorado/Washington pay range

$110,800$213,800 USD

California/New York/New Jersey pay range

$110,800$287,600 USD

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