Senior Backend Engineer, Deploy: Environments

We are currently seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Deploy: Environments team. Our team's primary focus is Cluster Management using our Agent for Kubernetes. Additionally, we are developing Deploy Management and environments-related tools to support platform engineers. For a more detailed look at our work, please visit our Delivery product page.
Our Deploy: Environments team is composed of exceptionally talented individuals who tackle challenging and engaging topics. As a full-stack team, we enjoy complete freedom to work with various programming languages, and we encourage continuous learning. At the moment, our primary focus is on the Agent, and we are facilitating the integration of Flux.
We operate as a distributed team and prioritize asynchronous collaboration. Our culture is centered around Ownership, Mastery, and Purpose. Although we engage in a few synchronous activities and collaborate on our processes, we prioritize results over rigid rules. For more information on how our team functions, please refer to our Handbook.
Responsibilities

 
Contribute to the overall direction of the Deploy group
 
Ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
 
Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity with boring solutions. Everyone is responsible for finding ways to simplify and improve the features we own.
 
Consider user experience throughout your work to help make every feature lovable.
 
Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
 
Collaborate with Product Management, Product Designers, Frontend Engineers, and other stakeholders to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
 
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. 
 
Maintain and advocate for high standards through code review changes submitted by other engineers or community contributors
 
Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team, and propose and implement solutions.
 
Grow your skills in Golang, Kubernetes, and Git.
 
Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions.
 
Provide mentorship for Junior and Intermediate Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers.
 
Engage in the trainee maintainer program at your own comfortable pace while striving to become a full-fledged project maintainer.

Requirements

 
Ability to use GitLab.
 
Significant experience building applications using Go (bonus if you know Go and Rails or have an interest in them!)
 
Professional experience with any other technologies that may be required by the specialty (Containers, K8s, orchestration, Docker, SSH, VSCode, Remote Development, Linux).
 
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.
 
Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
 
Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.
 
Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
 
Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates.
 
An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
 
Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
 
Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills.
 
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.

You'll stand out if you bring:

 
One or more merge requests against the GitLab codebase.
 
Experience with Rails.
 
Experience in large production environments and in scaling SaaS products.
 
Experience with the GitLab product as a user or contributor.
 
Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools
 
Experience working remotely and thrive in a fully remote organization
 
Experience working for a product company or startup

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 this position typically follows four stages. The details of this process and our leveling structure can be found on our job family page.
Compensation
To view the full job description and its compensation calculator, view our handbook. The compensation calculator can be found at the bottom of the page.
Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.