Intermediate Backend Engineer (Ruby), Verify:Pipeline Authoring

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 human progress. Our platform unites teams and organizations, breaking down barriers and redefining what's possible in software development. Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise and Duo Agent Platform, customers get AI benefits 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, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

An overview of this role

The Pipeline Authoring group develops tools for creating and managing your pipelines. We balance maintaining core functionality of the product with developing newer areas. Our key areas of focus are CI/CD components and the CI/CD Catalog, which allows users to discover, reuse, and contribute CI/CD components to make software development more efficient and productive.

As a Backend Engineer, you will work on maturing our Catalog and Component functionality and reliability, improve and maintain performance, scalability and security of Pipeline Creation, and always consider usability and user experience in these key areas of the product. Your contributions and collaboration with your fellow team members will ensure that GitLab CI/CD remains a best in class solution.

Some of the things we have recently been working on include:

• Inputs for Pipelines
• Inputs for Jobs
• Inputs Enhancements
• CI/CD Catalog - UX improvementsLearn more on the Pipeline Authoring direction pages:
• Pipeline Composition 
• Component Catalog 

About the team

The Pipeline Authoring team is made up of experienced Engineers, some having worked in this area for many years and some having joined more recently. The team shares a passion for finding solutions to complex challenges that scale and are maintainable. Located across five countries and several time zones, async communication is key to our success. The team lives by GitLab’s core values and is always eager to improve. Many things in GitLab begin with a pipeline, so our team regularly interacts with other GitLab teams, community contributors and customers as we strive to create the best possible Pipeline Authoring experience.

Learn more on the Pipeline Authoring group handbook page and Pipeline Authoring Unfiltered playlist.

What you’ll do  

• Write high-quality, efficient, and maintainable code while adhering to best practices and contributing to code reviews.
• Ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Advocate for improvements to reliability, security, and performance.
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team (“technical debt”), propose and implement solutions.
• Participate in agile development practices, including async planning sessions, stand-ups, and retrospectives, to drive iterative software development and continuous improvement for the team.
• Contribute to our development process by asking questions and providing feedback to make us better as a team.
• Embrace continuous learning and stay connected with industry best practices, tools, and technologies to drive improvements in our software.
• Participate in Tier 2 on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.

What you’ll bring

• Proficiency with Ruby and Ruby on Rails 
• Proven experience writing testable code in Ruby on Rails
• Experience with Relational Database Management Systems (PostgreSQL is a plus)
• Experience with GraphQL is a plus
• An ability to self manage and organize in an asynchronous and collaborative work environment
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Familiarity with various stages of software development end-to-end (Agile methodologies is a plus)
• Proven ability to work effectively in a team including product managers, designers, and other engineers
• A commitment to continuous learning and openness to giving and receiving feedback as a part of fostering individual and team development

How GitLab will support you

• 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

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.