Intermediate Backend Engineer, Ruby

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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.

Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise, and Duo Workflow, customers get the benefit of AI at every stage of the SDLC. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier. All team members are encouraged and expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact across our global organisation.

As a backend engineer in the GitLab Dedicated Group, you will be working with the team to build Switchboard, a customer portal being developed alongside the GitLab Dedicated single-tenant SaaS offering. Switchboard is used both by Dedicated customers as well as internal GitLab teams (SREs). The work you’ll be delivering will be impactful and highly visible to millions of our users across the globe.

You will implement backend functionality, follow best practices as per the GitLab guidelines and work closely with the frontend engineers, SREs, PM, EM and Product Designer to build and improve the Switchboard application. At GitLab, we live and breathe open source principles. This means our entire handbook is online, and with a few clicks, you can find the details of future releases and an overview of the product vision you’d contribute to when working here.

Responsibilities

• Develop features and improvements to the Switchboard product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
• Work with Product Management and other stakeholders (Frontend, SRE, etc.) to iterate on new features within the GitLab product.
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Confidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Help improve the overall experience of our product through improving the quality of the Backend features both in your group and features that benefit other groups.
• Identify areas of improvements in the code base, both specific to your group and outside your group and help contribute to make it better.
• Learn, collaborate and teach other Engineers. Everyone can contribute something new to the team regardless of how long they’ve been in the industry.
• Fix prioritized issues from the issue tracker. These are typically bugs listed in a GitLab issue with an attached severity and priority label.
• Contribute to and follow our workflow process, alongside the rest of the Switchboard Engineers and the GitLab community as a whole.

Requirements

• Professional experience with Ruby on Rails.
• 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.
• Experience with 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.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational p