Intermediate Backend Engineer - Ruby on Rails, Compliance

Intermediate Backend Engineer - Compliance

Overview

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Backend Engineer to join our Compliance group. This role is pivotal in advancing our enterprise-grade Compliance features, directly impacting GitLab's enterprise sales success. The Compliance group’s mission is to provide visibility into an organization's compliance posture within GitLab and offer tools for identifying non-compliant activities and enforcing compliance requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Code Development: Write high-quality, efficient, and maintainable code while adhering to best practices. Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality.
• Compliance Group Contribution: Contribute to the overall direction of the Compliance group, playing a key role in maturing GitLab's Compliance offering.
• Continuous Learning: Stay updated with industry best practices, tools, and technologies to drive improvements in our software.
• Product Quality Advocacy: Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Senior Engineers on architectural plans and technical designs, ensuring scalability, performance, maintainability, and measurability.
• Agile Practices: Participate in agile development practices, including planning sessions, stand-ups, and retrospectives, to drive iterative software development and continuous improvement for the team.

Required Skills and Experience

• Strong experience in building, deploying, and maintaining Ruby on Rails applications, with a deep understanding of the Rails ecosystem.
• A strong background in developing secure applications and a keen understanding of how to protect them against modern security threats.
• Proficiency in writing efficient SQL queries, preferably with PostgreSQL, to manage and manipulate data effectively.
• Ability to self-manage and organize in an asynchronous and collaborative work environment.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Familiarity with various stages of software development end-to-end (Agile methodologies is a plus).
• Proven ability to work effectively in a team including product managers, designers, and other engineers.
• Commitment to continuous learning and openness to giving and receiving feedback as a part of fostering individual and team development.

About GitLab

GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate and build software. As the world's largest all-remote company, GitLab offers the freedom to work from anywhere with good internet.

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

Application Process

GitLab welcomes interest from candidates with varying levels of experience. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application. GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

Salary

The base salary range for this role is $98,000—$210,000 USD, applicable for residents of specific locations. 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.