GitLab

Staff Backend Engineer, Developer Experience

Morowali, Sulawesi Tengah, Indonesia

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Software Development, DevSecOps, Open SourceIndustries

Position Overview

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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 Staff Engineer in GitLab's Developer Experience organization, you'll help drive engineering excellence at GitLab by creating tools that measure, analyze, and optimize development workflows and lead initiatives that enhance developer productivity.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the overall direction of the Developer Experience stage and Engineering-wide developer productivity initiatives through cross-team collaboration and technical leadership.
  • Teach, mentor and grow engineers across teams while providing technical guidance aligned with strategic objectives
  • Plan and execute improvements with a 12-month roadmap that supports stage-level OKRs
  • Solve complex, ambiguous technical problems across teams, innovating through experimentation and boldly tackling large-scale challenges.
  • Partner with the Management team, and enable Staff Engineers to engage on stage-level aspects of larger initiatives.
  • Propose technical implementations that support architectural changes that solve scaling and performance problems.
  • Interact with customers and other external stakeholders as a consultant and spokesperson for the work of your stage.
  • Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions.
  • Ship features and improvements independently with minimal guidance while mentoring other team members

Examples of initiatives you will work on

  • Provide architectural leadership for improving merge request cycle time, CI/CD infrastructure, and development environments
  • Drive technical solutions for code quality, performance optimization, and test framework enhancements
  • Implement metrics and instrumentation to guide data-driven feature development
  • Align stage level technical direction within Developer Experience and also across DevSecOps lifecycle stages

Requirements

  • Strong proficiency in developing in Ruby or Golang (Ruby preferred)
  • Strong experience working on public cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and managed compute platform (e.g, Google Cloud Run)
  • Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code & configuration management (Terraform & Ansible)
  • Track record building developer tools that improve velocity, quality, and code health
  • Experience with comprehensive testing approaches and product launches
  • Strong experience with software design and architecture.
  • Technical leadership experience setting direction and guiding project teams
  • Background in engineering productivity, developer tooling, and test automation
  • Experience managing data and building visualization with analytics platforms (e.g, Snowflake)

About the team

Our mission is to empower developers by building tools that enhance engineering effectiveness, enabling GitLab to deliver high quality products faster to customers. Read more about the stage in our handbook.

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.

Skills

Developer Workflow Optimization
Engineering Leadership
Cross-team Collaboration
Technical Guidance
Problem Solving
Mentoring
Innovation
Roadmap Planning

GitLab

Unified DevOps platform for software development

About GitLab

GitLab offers a DevOps platform that simplifies the software development process by providing a single application for collaboration, visibility, and speed. The platform integrates various tools needed for software development, which helps teams manage their projects more efficiently without juggling multiple tools. This allows companies to concentrate on enhancing their products instead of spending too much time on builds. GitLab serves a wide range of clients, including large corporations from different industries, demonstrating its versatility. The company operates on a subscription-based model, where clients pay for access to the platform, which includes features for continuous integration and deployment. GitLab also provides free trials and regularly updates its platform to deliver ongoing value to its users. By customizing its offerings and partnering with other technology providers, GitLab aims to enhance its ecosystem and drive revenue.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2014Year Founded
$421.8MTotal Funding
IPOCompany Stage
Consulting, Enterprise SoftwareIndustries
1,001-5,000Employees

Benefits

Spending Company Money
Equity Compensation
Life Insurance
Financial Wellness
Paid Time Off
Growth and Development Benefit
GitLab Contribute
Business Travel Accident Policy
Immigration
Employee Assistance Program
Incentives
All-Remote
Part-time contracts
Meal Train
Fertility & Family Planning
Parental Leave

Risks

AI-powered coding assistants like Claude pose a competitive threat to GitLab's platform.
Potential sale to Datadog may lead to strategic shifts misaligned with customer expectations.
Integration of Oxeye may distract from GitLab's core DevOps offerings.

Differentiation

GitLab offers a unified DevOps platform, reducing complexity in software development.
The platform integrates tools for collaboration, visibility, and speed, enhancing development processes.
GitLab's open-source model fosters continuous innovation with a large developer community.

Upsides

Acquiring Oxeye enhances GitLab's cloud security, appealing to security-conscious enterprises.
Partnership with Ooredoo Kuwait expands GitLab's influence in the telecommunications sector.
Potential sale to Datadog could create strategic synergies and expand market reach.

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