Backend Engineer, Verify: Runner at GitLab Inc.

itLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate and build software. From idea to production, GitLab helps teams improve cycle time from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs and time to market while increasing developer productivity.

What You’ll Do In This Role

• Contribute to the overall direction of GitLab-Runner development.


• Focus your efforts on GitLab-Runner scalability


• Help scale the infrastructure of the GitLab-Runners powering GitLab.com.


• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.


• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.


• Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions.


• Provide mentorship for Junior and Intermediate Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.


• Confidently ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members.


• Collaborate with the team on larger projects.


• Improve the engineering projects at GitLab via maintainer trainee program at your own comfortable pace, while striving to become a project maintainer.


• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.

You should apply if you bring:

• Significant professional experience with Golang.


• A focus on code quality.


• Experience in a scaling SaaS products.


• 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

You’ll stand out if you bring

• Demonstrated experience with any major cloud providers or infrastructure-as-code tools.


• Demonstrated experience with API development in Ruby/Rails.


• Demonstrated experience working with docker and kubernetes.

Also, we know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the confidence gap . You don’t have to match all the listed requirements exactly to be considered for this role.

Our hiring process for this Backend Engineer position typically follows four stages. The details of this process and our leveling structure can be found on our job family page .

Compensation

To view the full job description and its compensation calculator, view our handbook. The compensation calculator can be found towards the bottom of the page.

Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page .

Remote-Global

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