Intermediate Backend Engineer, Engineering Productivity

As a Backend Engineer, Engineering Productivity at GitLab, you will be responsible for measuring and optimizing the developer feedback loop using iteration to improve workflow efficiency for GitLab projects. The team uses a quantified approach to identify improvements and measure results of changes and experiments.

The Engineering Productivity team maximizes the value and throughput of Product Development teams and wider community contributors by improving the developer experience, streamlining the product development processes, and keeping projects secure, compliant, and easy to work on for everyone. Our team’s mission is to:

• Constantly improve efficiency for our entire engineering team.
• Measure what matters: quality of life, efficiency, and toil reduction improvements with quantitative and qualitative measures.
• Build partnerships across organizational boundaries to deliver broad efficiency improvements.

More information can be found on our Team Handbook page. 

The Engineering Productivity team is primarily responsible for 2 KPIs: reducing pipeline duration and increasing pipeline stability for GitLab projects. We focus on projects with the largest reach and leverage GitLab features wherever possible.

The team aims to provide a system or toolkit that installs GitLab on their workstation. This system would allow team members and contributors to test changes locally, speeding up the time it takes to make successful contributions. This sytem manages GitLab requirements, development tools, and databases.

What you'll do in this role:

• Build automated measurements and dashboards to gain insights into the Engineering organization's productivity to identify improvement opportunities.
• Increase contributor and developer productivity by making measurement-driven improvements to the development tools/workflow/processes, then monitor the results and iterate.
• Dogfood GitLab product features to improve developer workflow and provide feedback to product teams.
• Participate in activities related to Engineering throughput and KPIs
• Develop automated processes for improving label classification hygiene to support product and engineering workflows.
• Increase efficiency for wider GitLab Community contributions
• Enhance and add new features to the GitLab product to improve engineer productivity

You should apply if you bring:

• Experience developing in Ruby.
• Experience with test automation frameworks for both front-end and back-end testing.
• Experience in designing and developing tools and solutions used across teams.
• Development experience in object-oriented programming languages and patterns.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Experience with a front-end charting/visualization library.
• Experience using test automation tools. (Selenium, Capybara, Watir).
• Experience using Continuous Integration systems (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins, Travis).

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 experience levels; many successful candidates do not meet every requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for 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.