GitLab is hiring a
Backend Engineer in United States

Summary

The job is for a Senior Backend Engineer in GitLab's Geo team. The role involves developing scalable and performant product features for Gitlab Replication, Disaster Recovery, and Backup & Restore. The job requires significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails and Git, experience designing and building fault-tolerant, distributed systems, experience with queueing and messaging systems, provisioning tools, and is beneficial to have experience with backup and restore tools for databases, app configuration, and infrastructure as code for large distributed applications. The team offers various benefits such as health insurance, retirement benefits, paid time off, remote work, flexible hours, life and disability insurance, bonuses and incentives, professional development opportunities, wellness programs, family and parental leave.

Requirements

• Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails and Git
• Experience designing and building fault-tolerant, distributed systems
• Experience building and scaling highly-available systems
• Experience with queueing and messaging systems
• Experience with provisioning tools

Responsibilities

• Develop features and improvements to the GitLab Geo product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
• Work with the Product Manager to carefully assess the technical feasibility of feature requests
• Deliver proof-of-concept proposals to help guide technical discussions
• Identify ways to deliver complex technical projects in an iterative fashion
• Take ownership of feature implementation
• Provide technical advice to the Customer Support team to resolve requests from customers

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working with tools for backup and restore of: databases, app configuration, and infrastructure as code for large distributed applications

Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote , asynchronous work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget
• Parental leave
• Home office support