Intermediate Backend Engineer - Import and Integrate

About the Role

As an Intermediate Backend Engineer at GitLab, you will play a crucial role in shaping how users manage and integrate their GitLab workspaces. Your work will impact our open-source community and enterprise customers by enhancing our product, GitLab.com, and the enterprise editions. You’ll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and front-end engineers to build solutions that empower teams worldwide to seamlessly import data from competitor tools and manage access while adhering to strict compliance standards.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Conduct code reviews within our guidelines and ensure that community contributions receive a swift response.
• 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.
• 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 and weekend and occasional night on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.

Requirements

• Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails, Redis, and Sidekiq.
• Professional experience with Rest API, GraphQL, and Postgres SQL.
• Experience with Data Migration, Grafana, and Kibana preferred.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, is 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.
• 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.

About the Team

At GitLab, the Import & Integrate team plays a crucial role in making your transition to GitLab seamless, whether you're migrating from competitor tools or integrating existing workflows into GitLab’s ecosystem. Our team is focused on building and improving features that allow users to quickly import data, manage access levels, and maintain compliance, all while ensuring the smooth adoption of GitLab’s DevOps processes.

Benefits

• Health support
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget
• Parental leave
• Home office support

GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.