Intermediate Backend Engineer, Developer Experience: Developer Tooling

Intermediate Backend Engineer, Developer Experience: Developer Tooling

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About the Role

As a Backend Engineer in Developer Experience, you will be responsible for measuring and optimizing the developer feedback loop iteratively and improving workflow efficiency for GitLab projects.
You’ll use data-driven approaches to identify improvements and measure results of changes and experiments.

What you'll do in this role:

• Design, develop and enhance cross-team tools, frameworks, and solutions used in the course of the GitLab development.
• Build automated measurements and dashboards to gain insights into the Engineering productivity to identify improvement opportunities.
• Increase contributor and developer productivity by making data-driven improvements to the development tools/workflow/processes, then monitor the results and iterate.
• Dogfood GitLab product features to improve developer workflow and provide feedback to product teams.
• Participate in activities related to Engineering throughput and KPIs
• Develop automated processes for improving label classification hygiene to support product and engineering workflows.
• Increase efficiency for wider GitLab Community contributions
• Enhance and add new features to the GitLab product to improve engineer productivity

You should apply if you bring:Technical skills

• Strong knowledge of Code Source Control, ideally Git.
• Strong experience developing in Ruby.
• Solid experience with SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL or similar) and NoSQL databases (e.g., Redis, Elasticsearch or similar)
• Strong experience in designing and developing tools, frameworks and solutions used across teams.
• Solid experience with Containerization technologies
• Strong experience using Continuous Integration systems  (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins, Travis or similar).
• Solid experience with test automation frameworks for backend testing (e.g.,  Selenium, Capybara, Watir or similar).
• Solid Experience with monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana or similar).

Nice to have:

• Experience with other languages like Go, Python, or JavaScript.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure or similar).
• Experience with logging systems (e.g., Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana or similar).
• Experience with a front-end charting/visualization library

Interpersonal skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work efficiently in an async environment (see GitLab’s Manager of One)
• Ownership of projects, from design through to deployment, ensuring quality and reliability.
• Proactive attitude in identifying potential issues and addressing them early.
• Comfortable working in an agile environment, adapting to shifting priorities and deadlines.

About the Team

The Developer Tooling team, as part of the Developer Experience team, is dedicated to creating a system or toolkit that enables GitLab to be installed seamlessly on developers’ workstations. This system facilitates local testing of changes, reducing the time required to make successful contributions. It manages GitLab’s requirements, development tools, and databases, streamlining the contribution process for team members and contributors alike.

More information can be found on our Team Handbook page. 

How GitLab will support you

• 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

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying experience levels; many successful candidates do not meet every requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

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