Intermediate Backend Engineer, Verify: Runner

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

An overview of this role
The Runner team works closely with our other Verify teams to build our Continuous Integration (CI) system. Our Fleet Visibility engineers work to enable customers to more deeply integrate AI into their development processes, in one unified dashboard, allowing them to manage a GitLab Runner Fleet at scale and have deep visibility into CI/CD pipeline metrics.

As our new Backend Engineer, you will help us continue to mature our functionality, reliability, performance, scalability, security, and usability as this key area of the product continues to evolve. To help GitLab CI remain a best in class solution, you will play a key role, along with your fellow team members, to design and develop new features, while maintaining and expanding existing ones.

Some of the things we have recently been working on include:

• Runner Fleet Dashboard
• Introduce AI powered predictive analytics using GitLab Duo
• Improving reporting capabilities of pipeline and job metrics through CI Insights
• Launching big data offerings for our self managed customers through ClickHouse integration
• Our handbook page has more details on how we work as a team and our Product Vision and Roadmap

What you’ll do

• Write high-quality, efficient, and maintainable code while adhering to best practices and contributing to code reviews
• Embrace continuous learning and stay connected with industry best practices, tools, and technologies to drive improvements in our software
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
• Mentor and support fellow team members as you grow, sharing your knowledge and expertise to contribute to their growth
• Contribute to our development process by asking questions and providing feedback to make us better as a team
• Collaborate with more Senior Engineers on the architectural plans and technical designs ensuring scalability, performance, maintainability and measurability
• Participate in agile development practices, including planning sessions, stand-ups, and retrospectives, to drive iterative software development and continuous improvement for the team
• Participate in Tier 2 or Tier 3 weekday, weekend, and/or occasional night on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.

What you’ll bring 

• Proficiency with Ruby and Ruby on Rails (2+ years experience preferred)
• Experience with Relational Database Management Systems (PostgreSQL is a plus)
• Proven experience writing testable code in Ruby on Rails
• A commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (DIB at GitLab)
• Experience with GraphQL is a plus
• An ability to self manage and organize in an asynchronous and collaborative work environment
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Familiarity with various stages of software development end-to-end (Agile methodologies is a plus)
• Proven ability to work effectively in a team including product managers, designers, and other engineers
• A commitment to continuous learning and openness to giving and receiving feedback as a part of fostering individual and team development

About the team

The team is made up of experienced Engineers with a passion for solving problems and creating usable solutions; located across different time zones, async communication and manager of one is core to how we continue to deliver value to users. The Verify:Runner team cares deeply about GitLab’s core values and has principles that align with those values. The team regularly interacts with community contributors, customers, and other GitLab teams as we strive to create lovable DevSecOps features.