Backend Engineer, GitLab
Data Stores, Global Search
One DevOps platform
Job no longer available
One DevOps platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
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
- Strong professional work experience in Ruby and Ruby on Rails
- Proficient in Golang or willing to learn on the job
- Elasticsearch or other search engine experience - modeling, processing, nodes, index management, and performance tuning
- Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Vector databases is preferred
- Understand Database principles and optimization mechanisms, especially PostgreSQL
- Understand system internals, distributed systems, and high availability principles
- Experience with Kubernetes and Helm is preferred
- Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal
- Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills
- Share a set of GitLab values and work in accordance with those values
- Experience working with a remote team or ability to thrive in a fully remote organization
- Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools
- Work experience in product companies
What the job involves
- In this role, you will use Ruby on Rails, GoLang, search engines like Elasticsearch and Zoekt, PostgreSQL, and AI technologies to develop GitLab’s core search functionalities
- At the same time, you will also be advising other development teams on best practices for leveraging Global Search capabilities (e.g. indexing and searching various product feature contents)
- Building best-in-class search experience for GitLab customers and users
- Improve and implement our indexing and searching strategies
- Own architecture, performance, and scaling of the GitLab search solutions with Elasticsearch and other search engines
- Build responsive and scalable services and APIs
- Self-managed installation mechanisms
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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