Intermediate Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails/PostgreSQL), CI Platform

2 Months ago • All levels • Devops

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Backend Engineer, you will be working on the foundational layer of GitLab Continuous Integration (CI). Your responsibilities will include implementing performance and scale improvements for GitLab CI in a fast-paced, iterative environment, collaborating with other teams, advocating for improvements to reliability, security, and performance, and maintaining internal standards for code style and maintainability. You will also be expected to recognize and address technical debt, ship small features and improvements, and take ownership of what you build, focusing on stability and availability. You will have an opportunity to provide input towards our CI data management strategy.
Must have:
  • Professional experience with Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL
  • Experience working with a platform or complex application
  • Familiarity with building and deploying software with CI/CD
  • Familiarity with distributed, scalable and reliable systems
  • Proficiency in the English language
  • Experience working in a highly agile 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.
Perks:
  • 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

Job Details

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise, and Duo Workflow, customers get the benefit of AI at every stage of the SDLC. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier. All team members are encouraged and expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact across our global organisation.

An overview of this role

As a Backend Engineer joining our team, you will work on the foundational layer of GitLab Continuous Integration (CI). Our team is largely involved in scaling CI, along with ensuring our CI features remain performant and reliable by driving improvement to critical database infrastructure.  As many of our efforts are Engineering led, you will also have an opportunity to provide input towards our CI data management strategy. 

About the team

The CI Platform group was created in 2024, as part of the Verify stage, upon evaluating that we needed a dedicated team to work on the operational aspects of GitLab CI to ensure our platform remains best-in-class. The team has been largely focused on partitioning CI/CD Data and has started to explore aspects of CI Data retention and improved data management. You will get to dive into some complex technical challenges and collaborate with our infrastructure teams to strategize on solving these exciting challenges related to how we scale and grow CI.  More details can be found in our technical roadmap for Verify.

We live our transparency value by designing our systems and planning our work with publicly facing artifacts.  Some examples of our work include: 

What you’ll do  

  • Implement performance and scale improvements for GitLab CI in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
  • Collaborate with other stakeholders within Engineering (e.g. other Database or Infrastructure teams) to set best practices in managing a sustainable platform and to maintain a high bar for quality.
  • Advocate for improvements to reliability, security, and performance.
  • 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.
  • Ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
  • Work with your team to assess technical feasibility and discuss how best to iterate on complex problems. This might involve working on proof-of-concept proposals to help guide technical discussions.
  • Take ownership of what we build, focusing on stability and availability.

What you’ll bring

  • 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.

How GitLab will support you

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.

 
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