Backend Engineer, Verify: Pipeline Execution

This Backend Engineer position is for Pipeline Execution, one of the teams working on GitLab Continuous Integration (CI). This role is 100% remote.
As a Backend Engineer on Pipeline Execution, you'll play a key role maturing our CI features. Our group is focused on ensuring GitLab CI is scalable, secure and reliable, works well for customers, while maintaining a delightful user experience.
Some of the things we have recently been working on include:

 
Optimizing the performance of our CI database and scaling the larger tables
 
Improving speed of pipelines
 
Reducing technical debt and bugs with missed SLOs
 
Our handbook page has more details on how we work as a team, our core domain, and what we're working on in CI next and why.

The culture here at GitLab is something we’re incredibly proud of. Some of the benefits you’ll be entitled to vary by the region or country you’re in. However, all GitLab team members are fully remote and receive a "no ask, must tell" paid-time-off policy, where we don’t count the number of days you take off annually -- instead, we focus on your results. You can work the hours you choose, enabled by our asynchronous approach to communication. You can also expect stock options and a competitive salary. Our compensation calculator will be shared with selected candidates before any interview.
Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DIB) are fundamental to the success of GitLab. We want to infuse DIB in every way possible and in all that we do. We strive to create a transparent environment where all team members around the world feel that their voices are heard and welcomed. We also aim to be a place where people can show up as their full selves each day and contribute their best. With more than 100,000 organizations using GitLab, our goal is to have a team that is representative of our users.
What you'll do in this role

 
Contribute to the overall direction of the Continuous Integration and Continuous Integration Scaling categories.
 
Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
 
Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
 
Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
 
Conduct Code Review within our Code Review Guidelines and ensure community contributions receive a swift response.
 
Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around specific projects and community contributions.
 
Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
 
Confidently 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, weekend, and occasional night on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.

You should apply if you bring:

 
Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails.
 
Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
 
Experience developing and optimizing SQL Database queries, bonus points for working knowledge of PostgreSQL.
 
Experience in scaling a SaaS product.
 
Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
 
Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
 
Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal; key criteria for largely asynchronous work in a remote environment.
 
Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates
 
Demonstrated capacity to clearly discuss complex technical challenges, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
 
Comfort working in a highly agile and iterative software development process.
 
Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization
 
Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.
 
A positive, growth, and solution-oriented mindset
 
An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility
 
Share our values, and work in accordance with those values
 
Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization

Also, we know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the ​​confidence gap​.​​ You don’t have to match all the listed requirements exactly to be considered for this role.
Our hiring process for the Backend Engineer position typically follows four stages. The details of this process and our leveling structure can be found on our job family page.