Intermediate Backend Engineer(Go), Runner

GitLab; United Kingdom; Remote; USD 60,000 - 100,000

Job description

Remote, Canada; Remote, EMEA; Remote, Europe; Remote, United Kingdom

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.

As a Backend Engineer in our Verify: Runner group, you'll play a key role on a team whose mission is to create a build agent that works seamlessly on tomorrow's market-leading computing platforms and the tools to eliminate CI build fleet operational complexity at an enterprise scale. The features in our Verify: Runner group allow our customers to run their GitLab CI operations on a variety of platforms and ecosystems.

Our Verify: Runner group is primarily responsible for the GitLab-Runner. The GitLab-Runner is the interface between the rest of GitLab and a user's CI infrastructure. Whether CI is running on a cluster of Raspberry Pi’s, a super-computer, or, as in the case with GitLab.com, thousands of virtual machines running in the cloud - it’s the GitLab-Runner that makes this happen. Each week GitLab-Runners process millions of jobs for GitLab.com, and our docker images are downloaded 100s-of-millions of times.

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

• Focus your efforts on GitLab-Runner scalability
• Help scale the infrastructure of the GitLab-Runners powering GitLab.com.
• Solve technical problems of medium scope and complexity.
• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions.
• Confidently ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members.
• Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• Participate in Tier 2 or Tier 3 weekday, weekend, and/or occasional night on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.

What you’ll bring:

• Professional experience with Go in a large scale environment.
• Experience in scaling SaaS products.
• 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 problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers and clear status updates.
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization.
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values.

You’ll stand out if you bring:

• Demonstrated experience with any major cloud providers or infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Demonstrated experience working with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Demonstrated experience with site reliability.

About the team:

The team is made up of experienced Engineers with a passion for solving problems and creating usable solutions; located across different time zones, async communication and manager of one is core to how we continue to deliver value to users. The Verify: Runner team cares deeply about GitLab’s core values and has principles that align with those values. The team regularly interacts with community contributors, customers, and other GitLab teams as we strive to create lovable DevSecOps features.

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.

Remote-Global

Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.

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