Intermediate Backend Engineer, Development Tooling

About the Role

Join the Development Tooling team to build and maintain the foundational internal tools, frameworks, and infrastructure abstractions that maximize the efficiency and productivity of all GitLab engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain internal tooling, frameworks, and APIs to streamline common developer tasks like feature flag management or environment setup.
• Enhance and optimize local development environment tools and configurations (e.g., containerization setup, dev tooling CLI) to improve startup time and stability.
• Investigate and address performance and reliability bottlenecks across the developer workflow.
• Develop and enforce standards and reusable library components for service communication and configuration management across Ruby on Rails and Go codebases.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product engineers and infrastructure teams to translate pain points into robust, self-service tooling solutions.
• Create comprehensive documentation and provide support for all built tools.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience as a Backend or Platform Engineer.
• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang).
• Strong experience designing and writing tooling or frameworks utilized by a large developer base.
• Solid experience working on moderately complex technical refactoring or migration projects within a large codebase.
• Solid experience configuring and querying monitoring systems like Prometheus and/or Grafana.
• Practical experience with cloud-native infrastructure concepts, particularly Docker.
• Strong experience using Continuous Integration systems (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins).
• Solid experience with SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., Redis, Elasticsearch).
• A proven track record of taking a defined goal and driving it to completion with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work efficiently in an async environment.

Nice-to-Haves

• Practical experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Practical experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and basic exposure to Kubernetes concepts.
• Practical experience with GitOps or Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform).
• Practical experience with logging systems (e.g., ELK stack).
• Practical experience designing APIs.