Senior Backend Engineer, GitLab
Verify: Pipeline Security
+ Stock Options
One DevOps platform
Job no longer available
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+ Stock Options
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
- Professional experience with Ruby on Rails
- Experience working as a Tech Lead
- Familiarity with designing secure backend solutions using encryption to manage secrets and tokens. (Experience with integrating or using solutions like HashiCorp Vault is a bonus)
- 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
What the job involves
- As our new Senior Backend Engineer, you will help us maintain and enhance features in the areas of Secrets Management and Build Artifacts, and research support for new offerings and architectures
- You’ll be able to contribute towards increasing the maturity of our features for build artifacts and secrets management
- The Pipeline Security group is involved with diverse projects and tasks that include visibility into pipeline health, controlling the behavior of jobs and pipelines, and managing sensitive pipeline information for GitLab CI
- Pipeline Security engineering regularly interfaces with broader development teams in supporting initiatives to ensure software supply chain security
- As part of the Verify stage, you will work with us to develop a best-in-class CI platform, developing new features, improving system performance, or resolving bugs and technical debt
- Develop features and improvements to GitLab CI in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
- Work closely with other Engineers and stakeholders on systems design of our features, following our architectural design workflow process
- Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (Frontend, Product Design, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
- Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment
- Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review
- Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team (“technical debt”), propose and implement solutions
- Ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members
- Collaborate with the team on larger projects
- Work with your Engineering Manager and Product Manager to assess technical feasibility and discuss how to iterate on complex problems
- This might involve working on proof-of-concept proposals to help guide technical discussions
- Take ownership of what we build, focusing on stability and availability
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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