About the role
As a Backend Engineer, Developer Experience 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 Developer Experience 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.
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 system 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).
About the company
GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values.
