Senior Backend Engineer, Development Health
GitLab · Posted Nov 4
DevSecOps platform, software version control, CI/CD pipeline, and AI-assisted development services
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About the role
GitLab is a DevSecOps platform, and the Development Health team sits within Developer Experience, supporting GitLab's internal engineering organization. The team builds systems for CI/CD health alerting and remediation, flaky and slow test detection, and engineering analytics. This role is a senior backend engineering position focused on owning and evolving those systems, improving automation and test coverage, and using data to measure engineering health.
What you will do
- Health alerting and remediation routing for GitLab's core continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
- Flaky and slow test detection systems
- Engineering analytics and reporting that engineering teams use to make decisions
- Own and evolve core Development Health systems, from design through production.
- Improve the reliability, maintainability, and test coverage of long-lived automation, and reduce reliance on undocumented knowledge by documenting and simplifying legacy systems.
- Partner with engineering managers and product teams to identify workflow pain points and turn them into well-scoped, measurable improvements.
- Work with data to show whether changes improve engineering health, and use it to prioritize.
- Mentor intermediate engineers through code review, design feedback, and pairing.
- Communicate clearly in writing and asynchronously, including status, tradeoffs, and proposals for stakeholders across Engineering.
- Monitor the health of production systems, troubleshoot incidents, and contribute to root cause analysis.
- Use artificial intelligence (AI) agents and assistants to analyze issues and problem areas to help shape the team's product roadmap.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Substantial experience as a backend or tooling engineer, with a track record of owning production systems end to end.
- Strong proficiency in Ruby, or the ability to become productive quickly.
- Experience maintaining or modernizing legacy codebases safely.
- Comfort with CI/CD systems, application programming interfaces (APIs), and automation at scale.
- Independent problem-solving and clear, concise written communication: you spot problems early, raise risks proactively, and drive work to completion without close direction.
- Experience writing automated unit and integration tests and taking part in collaborative code review.
- Experience using AI coding assistants to speed up development while critically reviewing their output.
- Optional experience: Rails; developer productivity, engineering analytics, or internal tooling; GitLab's product and open source contribution workflow; data pipelines or metrics reporting; or agent-based workflows that run in production.
Benefits and support
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
About GitLab
GitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, delivered as a single application that empowers development, security, and operations teams to ship software faster and more securely. Operating as one of the world's largest all-remote companies, GitLab integrates the entire software lifecycle from planning and source code management to CI/CD and automated security testing. Millions of users and thousands of organizations globally rely on GitLab to scale their development workflows and adopt agentic AI engineering.
- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 2375 employees
- Founded
- 2011
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $435M raised
- 2022-09-16Post IPOUndisclosed
- 2019-09-17Series E$268M
- 2018-09-19Series D$100M
- 2017-10-10Series C$20M
- 2016-03-15Series B$4M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Product and Marketing Officer
Chief Business and Legal Officer
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