Intermediate Backend Engineer, Foundations: Import and Integrate

Remote

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

As a Backend Engineer at GitLab, you are pivotal in shaping how users manage and integrate their GitLab workspaces. Your work will impact our open-source community and enterprise customers by enhancing our product, GitLab.com, and the enterprise editions. You’ll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and front-end engineers to build solutions that empower teams worldwide to seamlessly import data from competitor tools and manage access while adhering to strict compliance standards.

You'll join the Import & Integrate team under the Foundations stage, where you will tackle complex challenges like ensuring smooth data migration and helping users adopt GitLab’s DevOps processes effectively. Your work here allows teams to accelerate their DevOps journey, manage value streams, and optimize workflows. The roadmap includes refining integrations, improving user access control, and enhancing the end-to-end DevOps experience.

As part of a remote-first, global company, you will have a unique opportunity to collaborate with peers across different time zones and cultures while reporting directly to a stable and supportive team. Your contributions will directly and visibly impact GitLab’s vast and growing user community. Whether based in the AMER, EMEA, or APAC regions, this role offers the flexibility to drive change from wherever you are.

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What You’ll Do  

  • 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 moderate scope and complexity.
  • Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
  • Conduct a code review within our code review guidelines and ensure that 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.
  • Confidently ship small 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.

What You’ll Bring 

  • Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails, Redis, and Sidekiq
  • Professional experience with Rest API, GraphQL, and Postgres SQL
  • Experience with Data Migration, Grafana, and Kibana preferred
  • Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, is sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
  • Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
  • Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
  • Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
  • An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
  • Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
  • 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.
  • Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization.

About the team

At GitLab, the Import & Integrate team plays a crucial role in making your transition to GitLab seamless, whether you're migrating from competitor tools or integrating existing workflows into GitLab’s ecosystem. Our team is focused on building and improving features that allow users to quickly import data, manage access levels, and maintain compliance, all while ensuring the smooth adoption of GitLab’s DevOps processes.

What makes this team particularly interesting is the wide scope of challenges we tackle. From enabling smooth data migrations to building reliable integrations that support our users' diverse needs, we are constantly improving the user experience. Additionally, we empower teams to implement and track their DevOps value streams, ensuring that GitLab fits into their current workflows and enhances them.

Thanks to our commitment to transparency, you can always see what we’re working on by visiting our team page. You can even explore our roadmap and join some of our meetings. This openness means you’re never in the dark about our progress, goals, or how you might contribute.

Our challenges are complex—ensuring data is transferred flawlessly, helping users stay compliant with security regulations, and improving value stream management are just a few of them. But the reward is huge: empowering teams worldwide to adopt GitLab more quickly and efficiently.

Want to learn more? Check out our handbook to dive deeper into our team’s mission and goals.

How GitLab will support you

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.

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations 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.

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$98,000 - $210,000 USD

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