Senior Backend Engineer, GitLab
Data Stores: Tenant Scale
$117.6-252k
Salary dependent on location. + Equity
One DevOps platform
Job no longer available
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$117.6-252k
Salary dependent on location. + Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it so that everyone can contribute. When everyone can contribute, users become contributors and we greatly increase the rate of innovation.
Role
Who you are
- Significant experience with Ruby on Rails
- Professional software engineering experience with databases (preferably PostgreSQL) in large production environments
- Familiarity with GraphQL
- Infrastructure / Deployments knowledge (optional)
- Interest in scalability / sharing and system programming languages, like Rust, Go, or Lua (optional)
- Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
- You can reason about software, algorithms, and performance from a high level
- You are passionate about open source
- Strong written communication skills
- Self-motivated and have strong organizational skills
- You share our values, and work in accordance with those values
What the job involves
- The Tenant Scale team is focused on a long-term scaling solution for GitLab
- The charter of this group is to explore, iterate on, validate, and lead implementation of proposals to provide a solution to accommodate Gitlab.com's daily-active user growth
- 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
- The efforts led by the Tenant Scale team will have an impact across all of GitLab
- You will be part of a group that is changing functionality used by all features in GitLab and consulting with development groups and sub-departments to implement changes required to support our Cells architecture
- Develop new features in collaboration with our product management, UX, and frontend teams
- Keep changes small and iterate towards the best solution
- Reviewing Rails and/or database related changes submitted by other engineers or community contributors
- Documenting best practices or patterns to avoid
- Developing tooling to proactively inform developers of potential performance issues
- Research, design and implement solutions to improve product performance
- What you’ll bring
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
GitLab is an open-source collaboration platform for developers. It enables teams to build code quickly from anywhere without compromising on security or quality. GitLab already has an estimated 30M+ users from all over the world.
According to a 2021 GitLab report, 60% of developers can release code 2x faster with DevOps platforms that bring teams together and accelerate processes. It stands out by catering to programmers of all experiences. Gitlab's version control system helps streamline the process of creating, maintaining, and deploying code, whoever you are.
GitLab was in the right place to capitalize on the recent trend toward rapid digital transformation and remote working. This trend is expected to continue to grow, and with it, GitLab's popularity. With its successful 2021 IPO and the patronage of major brands such as Nasdaq and Jaguar Land Rover, GitLab is expected to solidify its position as the go-to platform for development teams.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2019
$268m
SERIES E
Dec 2018
$20m
SERIES D
Total funding: $433.4m
Company benefits
- We offer benefits to manage your health, wealth, and well-being regardless of location
- Flexibility in schedule to be there for life’s important moments
- Equity compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan offered
- Generous Paid Time Off
Company values
- Collaboration - We prioritize things that help us work together effectively, such as assuming positive intent, saying “thanks” and “sorry,” and giving timely feedback.
- Results - We operate with a sense of urgency and bias for action, and we do what we promise — to each other, customers, users, and investors.
- Efficiency - From choosing boring solutions to documenting everything and being managers of one, we strive to make fast progress on the right things.
- Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging - We work to ensure GitLab is a place where people from every background and circumstance feel like they belong and can thrive.
- Iteration - We aim to do the smallest viable and valuable thing, and get it out quickly for feedback.
- Transparency - Everything we do is public by default, from our company handbook to the issue trackers for our product.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Founders
Sid Sijbrandij
(CEO)Studied Physics at the University of Twente. Interned at P&G and IBM. Was Lead Architect at the Netherlands' Ministry of Justice from 2009 to 2012. Founded app store Comcoaster in 2008, and then co-founded GitLab in 2012.
Diversity & Inclusion at GitLab
- Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging is woven into our values and everything we do
- GitLab is home to many dedicated Team Member Resource Groups
- GitLab is a global, multi-cultural organization with team members all over the world
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