Remote, Canada
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.
As a Backend Engineer in Create: Code Review, you will play a critical role in developing and maintaining the backend systems that power Merge Requests, ensuring accuracy, reliability, and speed. Merge Requests being a core feature of the GitLab platform, you will work on building scalable, high-performance systems that support our customers with collaboration and iteration. Your contributions will directly impact the code review process for our clients, helping them improve code quality while optimizing for the speed at which code is delivered.
Responsibilities Cells 1.0 - horizontally scaling the largest tables in the GitLab.com database.
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 our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team (“technical debt”), propose and implement solutions.
Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around specific projects and community contributions.
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.
Minimum Qualifications Professional experience with PostgreSQL or a comparable RDBMS.
Professional experience with Sidekiq.
Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for 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.
Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.
An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization.
Share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization.
Experience working with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Vue.js, Angular).
Experience in a peak performance organization, preferably a tech startup.
Experience with the GitLab product as a user or contributor.
Product company experience.
Experience working with a remote team.
Enterprise software company experience.
Developer platform/tool industry experience.
Experience working with a global or otherwise multicultural team.
Computer science education or equivalent experience.
Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools.
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.
Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote; however, some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.
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