Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby), Organizations at GitLab

Requirements

Professional experience with Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL.
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.

Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
Conduct Code Review within our Code Review Guidelines and ensure community contributions receive a swift response.
Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team (“technical debt”), propose and implement solutions.
Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around specific projects and community contributions.
Ship features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
Participate in Tier 2 or Tier 3 weekday and weekend and occasional night on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.