Senior Backend Developer, CI/CD Pipelines

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1. Work with helpful, kind, motivated, and talented people.
2. Work remote so you have no commute and are free to travel and move.
3. Have flexible work hours so you are there for other people and free to plan the day how you like.
4. Everyone works remote, but you don't feel remote. We don't have a head office, so you're not in a satellite office.
5. Work on open source software so you can interact with a large community and can show your work.
6. Work on a product you use every day: we drink our own wine.
7. Work on a product used by lots of people that care about what you do.
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10. Open internal processes: know what you're getting in to and be assured we're thoughtful and effective.

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CI Backend Developers are primarily tasked with improving the Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) functionality in GitLab. See the description on the CI team for more details. Senior CI Backend Developers report to the CI Lead.

We are currently looking for senior engineers who are proficient in the Go programming language.

Responsibilities

• Develop CI/CD features from proposal to polished end result.
• Support and collaborate with our service engineers in getting to the bottom of user-reported issues and come up with robust solutions.
• Engage with the core team and the open source community to collaborate on improving GitLab.
• Manage and review code contributed by the rest of the community and work with them to get it ready for production.
• Create and maintain documentation around features and configuration to save our users time.
• Take initiative in improving the software in small or large ways to address pain points in your own experience as a developer.
• Keep code easy to maintain and keep it easy for others to contribute code to GitLab.
• Qualify developers for hiring.

Requirements

• You can reason about software, algorithms, and performance from a high level
• You are passionate about open source
• You have worked on a production-level application using Go.
• Strong understanding of operating systems and concurrent programming
• Strong written communication skills
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Nginx, Ruby/Rails, and Linux system administration a plus
• Experience with online community development a plus
• Self-motivated and have strong organizational skills
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
• A technical interview is part of the hiring process for this position.