Backend Engineer, Verify: Pipeline Authoring

Backend Engineers at GitLab work on our product. This includes both the open source version of GitLab, the enterprise editions, and the GitLab.com service as well. They work with peers on teams dedicated to areas of the product. They work together with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to solve common goals.

The Pipeline Authoring team is focused on creating tools to help you create and manage your pipelines. The main areas we work on are the pipeline editor and the pipeline graph. See our handbook page for more information.

Why join the team?

The Pipeline Authoring team has a very unique setup that provides the opportunity to maintain core features of the product with newer and exciting areas. As the team continues over time, there will be a lot of opportunities to contribute to high-impact work, like performance improvements, scalability challenges, bug fixes, and increasing security. At the other end, we have the newly developed pipeline editor in which we work closely with product and UX to iterate on this area with all sorts of features and improvements.

Requirements

• Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails or language required by the specialty
• Professional experience with any other technologies that may be required by the specialty
• 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
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization
• Ability to use GitLab