Intermediate Backend Engineer, Organizations

An overview of this role

As a backend engineer on the Organizations team, you will play a critical role in building out our Organizations feature. This feature allows for centralized management of GitLab groups and projects, and it plays a key role in enabling our horizontally scalable Cells architecture. You will also work on improvements to GitLab’s groups, projects, and user profile functionality, all of which are foundational parts of the GitLab platform. 

Some examples of our projects: 

• Organizations Blueprint
• Cells Blueprint
• Organizations for Cells 1.0
• Organization Isolation
• Groups and Projects Improvements

What you’ll do  

• Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
• Conduct Code Review within our Code Review Guidelines and ensure community contributions receive a swift response.
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team (“technical debt”), propose and implement solutions.
• Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around specific projects and community contributions.
• Ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Participate in Tier 2 or Tier 3 weekday and weekend and occasional night on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.

What you’ll bring 

• Professional experience with Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL.
• Experience working with a platform or complex application (Large scale is a bonus).
• Familiarity building and deploying software with CI/CD or other internal tooling. 
• Familiarity with distributed, scalable and reliable systems.
• A user of modern DevOps platforms. (GitLab is a bonus.)
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
• Experience working in a highly agile, iterative software development process.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization.
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values.

About the team

The Organizations team is part of the Tenant Scale group in our Infrastructure Platforms department. It collaborates with numerous development and infrastructure teams to help realize our long-term vision of a horizontally scalable Cells architecture using the Organizations feature. As a team that is globally distributed across multiple time zones, we depend heavily on asynchronous communication. Thanks to our Transparency value, you can learn more about how we work in our team 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 levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to 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.