Backend Engineer, Secure (Ruby On Rails)

Requirements

• Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails
  
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
  
• 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
  
• 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
  
• Comfort and familiarity with our code review process
  

Nice-to-haves

• Significant professional experience in Golang
  
• Experience working in a peak performance organization, a product company, or an enterprise software company
  
• Experience with the GitLab product as a user or contributor
  
• Experience working with a globally distributed or otherwise multicultural team
  
• Developer platform/tool industry experience
  
• Computer science education or equivalent experience
  
• Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools
  

Requirements

• Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails
  
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
  
• 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
  
• 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
  
• Comfort and familiarity with our code review process
  

Nice-to-haves

• Significant professional experience in Golang
  
• Experience working in a peak performance organization, a product company, or an enterprise software company
  
• Experience with the GitLab product as a user or contributor
  
• Experience working with a globally distributed or otherwise multicultural team
  
• Developer platform/tool industry experience
  
• Computer science education or equivalent experience
  
• Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools
  

Responsibilities

• Confidently develop features and improvements with minimal guidance 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
  
• 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