Staff Backend Engineer, Engineering Productivity

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An overview of this role

As a Staff Backend Engineer, Engineering Productivity at GitLab you will be responsible for improving the productivity of internal GitLab Engineers, external contributors, and our users through shortening feedback loops and reducing cycle times for changes to GitLab. Helping to lead the team technically, you'll partner with Engineers across teams to ensure the solutions we're building in EP will improve productivity. 

What you'll do

• As part of the Engineering Productivity, you’ll work on improving the product pipeline performance to provide more timely and confidence in new features for GitLab.
• Work on architectural development and planning
• Help build a technical roadmap to allow us to become more efficient and continue to scale.
• You’ll measure organizational productivity and experiment with changes to increase productivity.
• You’ll improve GitLab's usage of Review Apps to validate changes to the product.
• You’ll build automated tooling to improve the merge request workflow.
• You'll improve the workflow automation for issues to help product managers identify actionable issues faster.

Projects you might work on as a Backend Engineer, Engineering Productivity:

• Building automated tooling to help us track key metrics such as cycle time
• Projects that enable us to overcome bugs in our CI features that impact the entire engineering department
• Dogfood and improve features such as Insights, Review Apps and Pipeline
• Issue and Merge Request Workflow projects such as gitlab-triage, triage-ops, and triage-serverless

What you'll bring

• Strong experience building Ruby on Rails applications
• You’ve got experience using Docker and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
• You’ve worked with industry-standard CI tools like GitLab CI, Jenkins, Bamboo, or Circle CI for example.
• Demonstrated experience working with Postgres
• You’ve got experience with Git and its command line.
• Our values of collaboration, results, efficiency, diversity, iteration, and transparency resonate with you.
• You'll thrive in an environment where self-learning and self-service is encouraged and instilled as a part of our culture.

We're aware the confidence gap exists so we want to encourage you to apply even if you do not match all of the requirements exactly. The above list is intended to show the kinds of experience and qualities we're looking