GitLab is hiring a
Senior Backend Engineer in Worldwide

Summary

The job is for a Backend Engineer in GitLab's Tenant Scale team, focusing on long-term scaling solutions. The role involves collaborating with teams, implementing changes to support the Cells architecture, and has a focus on Ruby on Rails, databases, GraphQL, and open source.

Requirements

• Significant experience with Ruby on Rails
• Professional software engineering experience with databases (preferably PostgreSQL)
• 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

Responsibilities

• Develop new features in collaboration with 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with GraphQL
• Infrastructure / Deployments knowledge (optional)
• Interest in scalability / sharing and system programming languages, like Rust, Go, or Lua (optional)

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