Backend Engineer / Senior Backend Engineer, Environment Automation

Backend Engineers in Infrastructure, will work alongside SREs, and are experienced Ruby developers who work in the product with a focus on reliability, observability, performance and scalability at the application level, as well as on resource optimisation from an Infrastructure perspective and on operationally relevant features.

As part of the Environment Automation team, Backend Engineers specialisation will focus primarily on building the user facing web application and the corresponding backend control plane to operate a large number of GitLab environments, through automating all workflows - from provisioning new environments to daily operating tasks. This is the main difference between other Backend Engineer roles in Infrastructure, as your day to day will be occupied by automation tasks of a large number of GitLab environments (and the environments used by GitLab), and programming tasks across many environments.

You may be a fit to this role if you:

• Have strong programming skills as a backend engineer with Ruby and/or Ruby on Rails. 
• Strong experience with profiling and metrics analysis
• Strong experience with observability tools, including metrics (Prometheus is a plus), structured logging and distributed tracing
• A background in DevOps, working with Linux, GCP/AWS, Chef/Ansible, Terraform or similar products is desirable
• A background in Kubernetes and declarative APIs is desirable
• Good knowledge around SQL and/or PostgreSQL
• Have experience regularly interacting with customers, and a focus on resolving their requests with a sense of urgency.
• Are able to leverage GitLab as your day to day go-to tool.
• Are able to reason about large systems - how they work and can be operated on a large scale, edge cases, failure modes, behaviors.
• Have experience in collaborating and communicating asynchronously.
• Have an urge to document all the things so you don't need to learn the same thing twice.
• Have an enthusiastic, go-for-it attitude. When you see something broken, you can't help but fix it.
• Have a strong sense for action and know how to iterate through a problem quickly.
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values.

Bonus points if you:

• You've built high scale systems with Kafka, Zookeeper, or similar messaging queues.
• You’ve built high scale APIs to orchestrate distributed systems
• You have worked on complex implementations featuring multi-threading, async IO, advanced scheduling and resource management

Projects you could work on:

• Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions to operate a large number of GitLab environments.
• Work on the GitLab core projects such as, GitLab Rails, GitLab Workhorse, Gitaly, etc.
• Work on projects that create deployment packages of GitLab such as, GitLab Helm Chart, omnibus-gitlab, etc.
• Work on the GitLab observability stack (e.g. ELK, Prometheus).
• Interact with various cloud provider systems (e.g. GCP, AWS).

Compensation

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The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently $89,600 - $163,200 for Colorado residents and $89,600 - $182,400 for New York and New Jersey residents only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.