Backend Engineer (RoR), Create: Source Code Management

April 17

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💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Description

• Own specific projects related to GitLab Rails Shell, Workhorse, and Project Templates written in both Rails and Golang • Investigate and mitigate performance issues • Ensure we deliver on our commitments to the market by communicating clearly with stakeholders • 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 internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review • 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

• Professional experience with Ruby on Rails • Some experience with Go (non-professional experience is fine) • Professional experience with SQL (ideally Postgres) • An understanding of Git functionality • Professional experience building web applications and APIs (ideally Ruby Grape or graphql-ruby) • Passion and interest in performance tuning and Rails caching strategies for high-traffic endpoints and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems • Experience building highly available and performant business-critical product features • Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions. • Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process. • Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution. • Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills. • Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization. • Contributions to GitLab are highly regarded

Benefits

• 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