Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby), Tenant Scale, Geo
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Remote, Americas; Remote, EMEA
Interview Process
1. A series of video calls 2. Coding exercise involving working on a Merge Request that is like a real work task
Programming Languages Mentioned
Ruby, SQL
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An overview of this role
As a Senior Backend Engineer on our Geo team within the Tenant Scale group, you will drive the development of scalable and performant product features for three distinct product categories: GitLab Replication, Disaster Recovery, and Backup & Restore. You will lead technical initiatives, mentor team members, and actively learn from the customer experience to guide the team in supporting customer needs. These could take the form of bug reports or feature requests. Geo users are often GitLab's largest customers, and many rely on Geo as a critical part of their workflow.
Some examples of our projects
- Geo Proxy
- Geo Self-Service Framework
- Geo-based Runner Acceleration
What you'll do
- Design and develop features and improvements to the GitLab Geo product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way, with a focus on architectural excellence
- Work with the Engineering Manager to carefully assess the technical feasibility of feature requests
- Deliver proof-of-concept proposals to help guide technical discussions
- Identify ways to deliver complex technical projects in an iterative fashion
- Take ownership of feature implementation
- Lead architectural design decisions and drive technical strategy for complex system challenges
- Mentor junior engineers and guide their technical development within the team
- Provide technical advice to the Customer Support team to resolve requests from customers
What you'll bring
- Extensive professional experience with Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL
- Experience designing and building fault-tolerant, distributed systems
- Experience building and scaling highly available systems
- Experience with queueing and messaging systems
- Experience with provisioning tools
- Considered a plus is to have experience working with tools for backup and restore of databases, app configuration, and infrastructure as code for large distributed applications
- Experience mentoring and leading engineers, and establishing technical best practices
About the team
GitLab Geo is an enterprise product feature, built to distribute GitLab self-hosted deployments to different geographic locations. This is achieved by replicating the entire GitLab dataset to new locations in a coordinated, consistent, and scalable manner. Data can be accessed from any of the locations, whilst intelligent proxying techniques guarantee users have access to the most recent data.
Geo's architecture addresses a number of customer problems that include acceleration of proximity-based data access and disaster recovery.
How GitLab will support you
- 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
- Home office support
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.
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