Senior Backend Engineer, Ruby

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🕒 6 days ago

🌐 Canada, United States – Remote

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $139.2k - $235.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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GitLab

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Consulting • Marketing • Artificial Intelligence

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform, offering tools for automated software delivery, security, and compliance throughout the software development lifecycle. It provides solutions across areas such as AI-assisted development, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), source code management, and vulnerability management. GitLab aims to simplify and accelerate software delivery by uniting development, security, and operations on a unified platform. It is particularly recognized for its AI code assistants and has been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms, making it a preferred choice for many enterprises.

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • Proficiency with Ruby and Ruby on Rails • 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being • Flexible Paid Time Off • Team Member Resource Groups • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Growth and Development Fund • Parental Leave