Senior Backend Engineer, Delivery: Releases

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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:

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