Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps that helps organizations improve developer productivity, operational efficiency, security, and digital transformation. The Senior Backend Engineer will join the Portfolio Experience team to shape user-focused features and evolve the backend architecture powering the work items platform, including portfolio planning, APIs, database performance, testing, observability, and mentoring.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product and other engineers to shape requirements, understand user needs, and break complex projects into shippable iterations
- Design and implement backend and real-time features in the GitLab monolith, including GraphQL and RESTful APIs and subscriptions, with a focus on performance, reliability, and user impact
- Build and evolve portfolio planning capabilities, including work item hierarchy, status rollup, and capacity planning
- Improve PostgreSQL performance at scale through query and write optimization, indexing, denormalization, partitioning, and moving suitable workloads to Elasticsearch or ClickHouse
- Create proofs of concept for complex work, maintain extensive automated test coverage, and support safe rollouts with feature flags and strong observability
- Mentor engineers and open source contributors through code reviews, pairing, regular feedback, contributor issues, and hackathons
- Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, contribute to root cause analysis, and improve the team's development and review processes
Skills
- Experience representing the user perspective while working through trade-offs with product managers, engineers, and users
- Experience leading projects involving several engineers over multiple months and supporting others through thoughtful code reviews, feedback, hiring, career development, and mentoring
- Full stack experience with a current backend focus, including proficiency with Ruby and Ruby on Rails and an understanding of how complex modern frontends work
- Strong PostgreSQL skills and experience improving database performance at scale through query and write optimization, indexing, denormalization, and partitioning
- Experience designing and evolving GraphQL and/or RESTful APIs with attention to scalability, backward compatibility, and clear contracts with frontend clients
- Experience improving large automated test suites, including the performance and reliability of the tests themselves
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for an asynchronous, distributed environment
- Experience integrating artificial intelligence into development workflows. Experience building artificial intelligence-powered features or working with Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, or Python is a plus
Benefits
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
- All of our roles are remote
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