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Staff Backend Engineer, Developer Experience

from GitLab · read the original and apply on their site

Remote, Canada; Remote, United Kingdom; Remote, US

Our take: The real work here is hands-on coding in Ruby and Go while removing the friction, flaky tests, and slow pipelines that slow every engineering team at GitLab.

If you love making other engineers faster and happier, this is your kind of work: coding in Ruby and Go while hunting down the flaky tests, slow pipelines, and quiet friction that drag whole teams down. You will move across six teams, jump into the hardest problems, and win people over by making things genuinely better rather than by pulling rank. Come do this if you get a real kick out of a smoother, more confident development experience for everyone.

Needs

  • coding in ruby and go
  • designing scalable systems
  • fixing flaky pipelines
  • raising test quality
  • influencing engineers
  • finding root causes

Rewards

  • leading across teams
  • shaping engineering culture
  • empowering developers
  • visible company-wide impact

Demands

  • cross-team collaboration
  • remote-first communication
  • unblocking critical work
  • working across six teams

Grows

  • influence without authority
  • platform strategy thinking
  • turning mess into clarity
  • learning fast

Values

  • transparency
  • learning culture
  • inclusion
  • user obsession
  • iteration over perfection

Drains

  • chasing process friction
  • gathering scattered feedback
  • coordinating distributed teams

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