GitLab is hiring a
Backend Engineer, Verify: Runner in Worldwide

Summary

The job description is for a Backend Engineer position in GitLab's Verify: Runner group, which is a fully remote role. The main responsibility is to contribute to the development of GitLab-Runner and focus on scalability.

Requirements

• Professional experience with Go in a large scale environment
• Experience in scaling SaaS products
• 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
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the overall direction of GitLab-Runner development
• Focus your efforts on GitLab-Runner scalability
• Help scale the infrastructure of the GitLab-Runners powering GitLab.com
• Solve technical problems of medium scope and complexity
• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review
• Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions
• Confidently ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members
• Collaborate with the team on larger projects
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience with any major cloud providers or infrastructure-as-code tools
• Demonstrated experience working with Docker and Kubernetes
• Demonstrated experience with site reliability

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