Remote Intermediate Backend Engineer, Govern: Threat Insights

Description:

• As an Intermediate Backend Engineer in Threat Insights at GitLab, you will be responsible for developing features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant manner.
• You will collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering to maintain a high standard of quality.
• Your main focus will be advancing the Threat Insights performance and optimization offering, working with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to solve problems across the Threat Insights domain.
• You will advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance, ensuring code meets internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices in a high-scale web environment.
• Additionally, you will participate in code reviews, recognize and propose solutions for technical debt, and ship features and improvements with minimal guidance.
• You will also be part of on-call rotations to assist in troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues.

Requirements:

• Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails is required for this role.
• Strong experience with relational databases, preferably Postgres, is necessary.
• Demonstrated capacity to communicate clearly and concisely about complex technical, architectural, and organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions is essential.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems, as well as the ability to diagnose and prevent these issues, is a must.
• Comfort working in a highly agile and intensely iterative software development process is required.
• Effective communication skills, the ability to regularly achieve consensus with peers, and provide clear and consistent status updates are necessary.
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution, is important.
• Being self-motivated, self-managing, and having strong organizational skills are key requirements for this position.

Benefits:

• GitLab offers benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being.
• You will work in an all-remote and asynchronous work environment.
• Flexible Paid Time Off is provided.
• Team Member Resource Groups are available for inclusion and belonging.
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan are part of the benefits package.
• A Growth and development budget is allocated for your professional development.
• Parental leave is offered to support work-life balance.
• Home office support is provided to ensure a comfortable and productive remote working environment.