Senior Backend Engineer (Ruby), Plan: Portfolio Experience

GitLab

1d•$139,200 - $235,200•Remote

About The Position

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for its Portfolio Experience team. This role involves being an experienced product engineer with full-stack capabilities, currently focusing on backend development. The engineer will be responsible for understanding user needs and shaping features, working directly with product managers, users, and open-source contributors. The position will focus on evolving the backend architecture for the work items platform, which needs to handle millions of work items across numerous groups and projects efficiently.

Requirements

Experience representing the user perspective while working through trade-offs with product managers, engineers, and users.
Experience leading projects involving several engineers over multiple months and supporting others through thoughtful code reviews, feedback, hiring, career development, and mentoring.
Full stack experience with a current backend focus, including proficiency with Ruby and Ruby on Rails and an understanding of how complex modern frontends work.
Strong PostgreSQL skills and experience improving database performance at scale through query and write optimization, indexing, denormalization, and partitioning.
Experience designing and evolving GraphQL and/or RESTful APIs with attention to scalability, backward compatibility, and clear contracts with frontend clients.
Experience improving large automated test suites, including the performance and reliability of the tests themselves.
Strong written and verbal communication skills for an asynchronous, distributed environment.
Experience integrating artificial intelligence into development workflows.

Nice To Haves

Experience building artificial intelligence-powered features or working with Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, or Python.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with product and other engineers to shape requirements, understand user needs, and break complex projects into shippable iterations.
Design and implement backend and real-time features in the GitLab monolith, including GraphQL and RESTful APIs and subscriptions, with a focus on performance, reliability, and user impact.
Build and evolve portfolio planning capabilities, including work item hierarchy, status rollup, and capacity planning.
Improve PostgreSQL performance at scale through query and write optimization, indexing, denormalization, partitioning, and moving suitable workloads to Elasticsearch or ClickHouse.
Create proofs of concept for complex work, maintain extensive automated test coverage, and support safe rollouts with feature flags and strong observability.
Mentor engineers and open source contributors through code reviews, pairing, regular feedback, contributor issues, and hackathons.
Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, contribute to root cause analysis, and improve the team's development and review processes.