Senior Backend Engineer - Delivery: Releases

The Delivery Group is responsible for guaranteeing and improving the software delivery for GitLab.com as well as for self-managed users by improving the release management tooling and processes. Delivery engineers work closely with teams across Development Test Security and Production Engineering to ensure features are delivered in a safe scalable and efficient fashion.

Responsibilities

Backend Engineers with Delivery:Releases specialization work alongside Site Reliability Engineers with a focus primarily on improving release management tooling and processes. While the SRE's approach their responsibilities from an operational perspective Backend Engineers approach the same problems from a software developer point of view and collaborate closely on finding an optimal solution that will safely and quickly deliver code to various supported environments.

• Guarantee the GitLab Release Process

• Create new tools and frameworks to automate the release process

• Build new GitLab release features to replace existing custom tooling

• Work with individual teams on defining and implementing solutions that will help them release quicker

• Create frameworks that allow engineers to write code that scales with demand

• Help teams instrument their code and helps recognize parts of code that could benefit from increased observability

• Work closely with peer Infrastructure teams to control the impact of application code running in user facing products

• Help communicate the release schedule clearly with others

• Develop monitoring and alerting to measure release process velocity

• Identify process bottlenecks and introduce optimizations

• Participate in Release Manager rotation

Requirements

As an ideal candidate you will have

• Proficiency with Ruby experience with Ruby on Rails as a plus

• Boundless curiosity and a demonstrable ability to learn

• Experience working on large scale systems

• Experience optimizing Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment pipelines as well as the tooling and processes that go with them

• A strong application and systems observability background

• A product development mindset when developing new components

You share our values and work in accordance with those values.

Performance indicators

The Delivery team has the following performance indicators:

Mean Time to Production