Backend Engineer, Core Platform: Geo

Description As a Backend Engineer on our Geo team within the Core Platform subdepartment, you will work developing scalable and performant product features for three distinct product categories; Gitlab Replication, Disaster Recovery, and Backup & Restore. Furthermore, you will actively learn from the customer experience and support them with issues that they bring to our attention. These could take the form of bug reports or feature requests. Geo users are often Gitlab’s largest customers and many rely on Geo as a critical part of their workflow.

Responsibilities

• Develop features and improvements to the GitLab Geo product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
• Work with the Product Manager to carefully assess the technical feasibility of feature requests.
• Deliver proof-of-concept proposals to help guide technical discussions.
• Identify ways to deliver complex technical projects in an iterative fashion.
• Take ownership of feature implementation.
• Provide technical advice to the Customer Support team to resolve requests from customers.

Requirements

• Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails and Git.
• Experience designing and building fault-tolerant, distributed systems.
• Experience building and scaling highly-available systems.
• Experience with queueing and messaging systems.
• Experience with provisioning tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with tools for backup and restore of databases, app configuration, and infrastructure as code for large distributed applications.

Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being.
• All remote, asynchronous work environment.
• Flexible Paid Time Off.
• Team Member Resource Groups.
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Growth and development budget.
• Parental leave.
• Home office support.

About the Company The GitLab DevSecOps platform empowers 100,000+ organizations to deliver software faster and more efficiently. We are one of the world’s largest all-remote companies with 2,000+ team members and values that foster a culture where people embrace the belief that everyone can contribute.