Intermediate Backend Engineer (Ruby on rails), CI Platform

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

As a Backend Engineer joining our team, you will work on the foundational layer of GitLab Continuous Integration (CI). Our team is largely involved in scaling CI, along with ensuring our CI features remain performant and reliable by driving improvement to critical database infrastructure. As many of our efforts are Engineering led, you will also have an opportunity to provide input towards our CI data management strategy.

About the Team

The CI Platform group was created in 2024, as part of the Verify stage, upon evaluating that we needed a dedicated team to work on the operational aspects of GitLab CI to ensure our platform remains best-in-class. The team has been largely focused on partitioning CI/CD Data and has started to explore aspects of CI Data retention and improved data management. You will get to dive into some complex technical challenges and collaborate with our infrastructure teams to strategize on solving these exciting challenges related to how we scale and grow CI. More details can be found in our technical roadmap for Verify.

We live our transparency value by designing our systems and planning our work with publicly facing artifacts. Some examples of our work include:

• CI/CD data time decay: design document, planned work
• Partition CI/CD pipelines data
• Design CI data retention policies for gitlab.com
• Improvements to Sidekiq Worker performance

Responsibilities

• Implement performance and scale improvements for GitLab CI in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Collaborate with other stakeholders within Engineering (e.g. other Database or Infrastructure teams) to set best practices in managing a sustainable platform and to maintain a high bar for quality.
• Advocate for improvements to reliability, security, and performance.
• 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.
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team (“technical debt”), propose and implement solutions.
• Ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Work with your team to assess technical f

Requirements

• Not specified

Application Instructions

• Not specified

Company Information

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.