Backend Engineer

Remote

The Pods Group is a part of the Enablement sub-department. Enablement, as the name suggests, is about enabling development efficiencies for our greater development community and improving our scalability story for GitLab.com. We have some lofty goals on what we’d like to achieve in the next year. We cannot do all of the work we have identified by ourselves, so we are creating tools to enable teams to implement scalable solutions. Below is a list of a few of these initiatives:

What you will do

Develop new features in collaboration with our product management, UX, and frontend teams.
Keep changes small and iterate towards the best solution.
Reviewing Rails and/or database related changes submitted by other engineers or community contributors
Documenting best practices or patterns to avoid
Developing tooling to proactively inform developers of potential performance issues
Research, design and implement solutions to improve product performance

What you will bring

Significant experience with Ruby on Rails in a production environment
Professional software engineering experience with Databases (preferably PostgreSQL) in large production environments
Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
You can reason about software, algorithms, and performance from a high level
You are passionate about open source.
Strong written communication skills.
Self-motivated and have strong organizational skills.
You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.

Nice-to-haves

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
Developer platform/tool industry experience
Experience working with a global or otherwise multicultural team
Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools

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.

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.

Colorado/Washington pay range

$92,400—$178,200 USD

California/New York/New Jersey pay range

$92,400—$198,000 USD