Intermediate Backend Engineer, Development Tooling

November 12

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Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise • SaaS

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.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

📋 Description

• Develop Internal Tools: Design, implement, and maintain internal tooling, frameworks & APIs that streamline common developer tasks, such as managing feature flags, automating environment setup, or provisioning internal resources. • Improve Local Development: Enhance and optimize our local development environment tools and configuration (e.g., containerization setup, dev tooling CLI) to reduce startup time and improve stability for new and existing engineers. • Performance and Reliability: Investigate and address bottlenecks in the developer workflow, focusing on improving the speed and reliability of different stages. • Tooling Consistency: Develop and enforce standards and reusable library components for tasks like service communication, configuration management, and health checks across our primary Ruby on Rails and Go codebases. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product engineers, software engineers in test, and infrastructure teams to understand pain points and translate them into robust, self-service tooling solutions. • Documentation and Support: Create clear, comprehensive documentation and provide support for the tools you build, acting as a steward for developer experience.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience as a Backend or Platform Engineer. • Strong proficiency in Go (Golang). • Strong experience designing and writing tooling or frameworks used by a large number of developers. • Solid experience working on moderately complex technical refactoring or migration projects within a large codebase (e.g., mono repos). • Solid experience configuring and querying monitoring systems like Prometheus and/or Grafana. • Practical experience with cloud-native infrastructure concepts, particularly Docker. • Strong experience using Continuous Integration systems (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar). • Solid experience with SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL or similar) and NoSQL databases (e.g., Redis, Elasticsearch, or similar). • Solid experience with test automation frameworks for backend testing (e.g., Selenium, Capybara, Watir, or similar).

🏖️ 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 • Home office support