Jobs at GitLab

Responsibilities

• Develop features and improvements in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
• Work closely with company leadership to guide GitLab’s entry into the market represented by the SEG
• Interact with community members and help drive initial user adoption
• Develop strategies for scaling beyond the Incubation phase
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Regularly demonstrate progress to stake holders

Requirements

• You meet the requirements for a Senior Backend Engineer (or above)
• You bring strong technical skills and an ability to work across backend, frontend, and infrastructure management code. Experience with Ruby/Rails or Go, cloud development environments, and Vue.js are particularly relevant given GitLab’s current tech stack
• You demonstrate a desire to work in a “startup within a startup” with a broad scope of ownership and high degree of autonomy.
• You demonstrate an interest and experience in the subject matter. This means you're interested in building a cloud-based development environment within GitLab
• You must be excited about the ability to work independently, or have prior success in a similar "incubation" model
• You understand the competitive landscape and market opportunities in this domain
• You are comfortable with changing direction based on stakeholder feedback and market conditions

You'll Stand Out If You Bring Experience In

• Being a prior company technical cofounder
• Being an early contributor to a successful open source project
• Working successfully on a prior single-engineer group
• Extensive familiarity with the GitLab project and application
• Working with people around the globe
• Cloud IDEs or other related technologies

The culture here at GitLab is something we’re incredibly proud of. Some of the benefits you’ll be entitled to vary by the region or country you’re in. However, all GitLab team members are fully remote and receive a "no ask, must tell" paid-time-off policy, where we don’t count the number of days you take off annually -- instead, we focus on your results. You can work the hours you choose, enabled by our asynchronous approach to communication. You can also expect stock options and a competitive salary. Our compensation calculator will be shared with selected candidates before any interview.

Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DIB) are fundamental to the success of GitLab. We want to infuse DIB in every way possible and in all that we do. We strive to create a transparent environment where all team members around the world feel that their voices are heard and welcomed. We also aim to be a place where people can show up as their full selves each day and contribute their best. With more than 100,000 organizations using GitLab, our goal is to have a team that is representative of our users.

For Colorado residents: The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently $ 89,600 - $220,400 for Colorado residents only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity . Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary. Disclosure as required by the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, C.R.S.

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GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law . If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation , please let us know during the recruiting process .

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A Few Benefits Of SEG Include

We can guarantee a higher rate of success by incubating ideas inside our larger organization and existing code base while limiting the negative aspects of friction that come from a larger organization.

• There are lots of decisions to be made, which happen more effectively in a single brain.
• There is not enough code for multiple people to work on without running into merge conflicts.
• Starting work earlier allows for more time for other people to contribute. We need to have a head start many years ahead of commercialization.

This Senior/Staff Fullstack Engineer will be working in the Product Analytics SEG.

Responsibilities

• Develop features and improvements in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
• Work closely with company leadership to guide GitLab’s entry into the market represented by the SEG
• Interact with community members and help drive initial user adoption
• Develop strategies for scaling beyond the Incubation phase
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Regularly demonstrate progress to stake holders

Requirements

• You meet the requirements for a Senior Backend Engineer (or above)
• You bring strong technical skills and an ability to work across backend, frontend, and infrastructure management code. Experience with Ruby/Rails or Go, Terraform/IaC, and Vue.js are particularly relevant given GitLab’s current tech stack
• You demonstrate a desire to work in a “startup within a startup” with a broad scope of ownership and high degree of autonomy.
• You must be excited about the ability to work independently, or have prior success in a similar "incubation" model
• You understand the competitive landscape and market opportunities in this domain
• You are comfortable with changing direction based on stakeholder feedback and market conditions
• You're passionate about great UX
• You have a background in building scalable services

You'll Stand Out If You Bring Experience In

• Being a prior company technical cofounder
• Being an early contributor to a successful open source project
• Working successfully on a prior single-engineer group
• Extensive familiarity with the GitLab project and application
• Working with people around the globe
• Have distributed systems experience
• Setting up analytics tooling.

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What you can expect in a Fullstack Engineer role in our Incubation department:

• Develop features and improvements in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
• Work closely with company leadership to guide GitLab’s entry into the market represented by this DevOps for Salesforce SEG
• Interact with community members and help drive initial user adoption
• Develop strategies for scaling beyond the Incubation phase
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Regularly demonstrate progress to stakeholders

You should apply if:

• You meet the requirements outlined for the level of role you're applying to in our Backend Engineer job family .
• You bring strong technical skills and an ability to work across backend, frontend, and infrastructure management code. Experience with Ruby/Rails or Go, Terraform/IaC, and Vue.js are particularly relevant given GitLab’s current tech stack.
• You demonstrate a desire to work in a “startup within a startup” with a broad scope of ownership and high degree of autonomy.
• You must be excited about the ability to work independently, or have prior success in a similar "incubation" model.
• You understand the competitive landscape and market opportunities in the No Code/Low Code domain.
• You are comfortable with changing direction based on stakeholder feedback and market conditions.
• You're passionate about great UX.
• You have a background in building scalable services.

You'll stand out if you bring experience in

• Being a prior company technical cofounder.
• Being an early contributor to a successful open source project.
• Working successfully on a prior single-engineer group.
• Extensive familiarity with the GitLab project and application.
• Working with people around the globe.
• Have distributed systems experience.
• Developing Low Code / No Code platforms.

What it’s like to work here at GitLab:

The culture here at GitLab is something we’re incredibly proud of. You’ll spend your time collaborating with kind, talented, and motivated colleagues from across the globe.

Some of the benefits you’ll be entitled to vary by the region or country you’re in. However, all GitLab team members are fully remote and receive a "no ask, must tell" paid-time-off policy, where we don’t count the number of days you take off annually.

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Responsibilities

• Extends that of the Manager, Team Member Relations responsibilities.
• Oversight and management of the Team Member Relations Team.
• Develop our investigation and team member relations processes, policies and objectives in partnership with Legal and People team functions.
• Establishes strategic partnerships and supports business units on employee relations concerns, performance management initiatives and change management.
• Responsible for reporting on and identifying team member relations trends and patterns and utilizing this data to develop and recommend strategic approaches to drive change and mitigate risk to GitLab.
• Partner closely with People Business Partners, Legal, Learning and Development, and People Operations and Systems to implement solutions and help scale GitLab.
• Ensures adherence to a wide range of practices including recruiting, hiring, performance management and compensation.
• Designs, facilitates, and scales Manager Training based on data analysis.
• Responds to and directly manages highly sensitive investigations, summarizes findings, and provides recommended resolutions to executive and other levels of management when necessary.

Requirements

• Extends that of the Manager Team Member Relations requirements
• 10+ years experience in employee relations
• 5+ years experience managing a team
• Solid judgment and experience assessing risk relative to the business
• Strong communication and critical thinking skills
• Empathetic compassionate and human
• Objective, fair, and compliant with local laws and regulations
• Strong project and change management experience
• Demonstrated experience learning and thriving in a constantly changing environment.
• Experience using data to identify insights that drive action
• Strong analytical/problem-solving skills; ability to communicate complicated solutions in a simple, digestible way with data
• Experience working with confidential data
• Desire and enthusiasm to build processes and practices to create and elevate how team members experience their journey at GitLab

Performance Indicator

• Team Member Case Management
• Team member relations will respond to all requests for assistance from team members within 24 hours.
• All cases are resolved in a consistent, fair and unbiased process.
• Identify and resolve potential risks to GitLab.
• Provide all GitLab team members an avenue to express workplace concerns and to resolve conflicts in a safe and unbiased forum.
• When surveyed, >90% utilizing the Team Member Relations team report effective interactions and outcomes, and resolutions to their concerns.
• Overall employee sentiment is positive (>80%) on the Engagement Survey.
• Collaboration
• Effective partnership with key stakeholders such as People Business Partners, Legal and People Success.

Career Ladder

The next step in the job family is VP, People Operations, or Director, People Business Partner.

Hiring Process

Candidates for this position can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that candidates can be declined from the position at any stage of the process. To learn more about someone who may be conducting the interview, find their job title on our team page .

• Qualified candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute screening call with one of our Global Recruiters.
• Next, candidates will be invited to schedule a 45 minute interview with our Senior Manager, People Operations
• After that, candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute interview with members of the People Business Partner Team
• Next, candidates will be invited to schedule a 30 minute interview with members of the Legal team
• After that, candidates will be invited to interview with the Senior Director, People Success
• Finally, our CPO may choose to conduct a final interview

Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page .

Compensation Calculator

To find out more about the compensation for this role, please apply to a role first. Once selected for a screening call, you'll be able to sign up here to view our compensation calculator. Be sure to use the same email address for both

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Responsibilities

• Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Product Designers, Frontend Engineers and other stakeholders to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team, and propose and implement solutions.
• Ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.

You should apply if:

• Professional experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates.
• Aspiration toward building our culture of communication, inclusion, and visibility.
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of an organization.
• Share our values , and work in accordance with those values.

You will stand out if:

• Experience with DevOps tools and application deployment models (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Experience with the GitLab product as a user or contributor.
• Experience working remotely
• Experience working for a product company or startup
• Bring experience with GraphQL

Typical Hiring Process

• 30 minute screening call with the Recruiter
• 90 minute technical interview
• 60 minute behavioral panel interview
• 60 minute senior leader interview
• Reference Checks

For Colorado residents: The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently $89,600 - $157,400 for Colorado residents only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity . Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary. Disclosure as required by the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, C.R.S.

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Responsibilities

• Perform strategic and ad-hoc data work in support of Product Managers
• Identify opportunities in data to accelerate product adoption, retention, engagement, and/or monetization
• Develop dashboards and define metrics that inform success for the Product Team
• Help design, execute and evaluate A/B tests to improve the user journey
• Explore large, complex, and loosely defined datasets to create actionable insights
• Serve as the Technical DRI for the Product Key Performance Indicators
• Serve as the Business DRI for the Product areas of the Enterprise Dimensional Model – the future of Trusted Data @ GitLab
• Explain trends across data sources, potential opportunities for growth or improvement, and data caveats for descriptive, diagnostic, predictive (including forecasting), and prescriptive data projects
• Develop user archetypes and build dashboards to demonstrate their usage patterns
• Capture and document data user stories, use cases, and workflows
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices
• Operate in an iterative mindset, focused on delivering improvements and value at high velocity
• Document every action in either issue/MR templates, the handbook, or READMEs so your learnings turn into repeatable actions and then into automation following the GitLab tradition of handbook first!
• Work collaboratively with product team members such as: Product Managers, Engineering, Design, as well as with Data team members such as Data Analysts and Data Engineers

Requirements

• Experience leveraging descriptive and predictive data techniques (Typically 5+ years for Senior)
• Experience focused on feature and usage metrics, A/B testing, conversion and retention, segmentation, and developing user archetypes and their usage patterns
• Experience uncovering data insights to form hypothesis, designing product experiments, evaluating results and making recommendations
• Advanced Level SQL
• Advanced BI dashboard development (we use SiSense)
• Experience working with a Data Warehouse built using Kimball dimensional modeling
• Ability to design, document, and communicate models using Entity Relationship Diagrams
• Able to read Ruby to trace data flows and code paths
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization, being collaborative and supportive
• Ability to use GitLab
• Previous experience supporting product or growth team
• Comfortable with fast-pace and ambiguity in a start-up environment

Hiring Process

Candidates for this position can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that applicants can be declined from the position at any stage of the process. To learn more about someone who may be conducting the interview, find their job title on our team page .

• Selected candidates will be invited to schedule a screening call with one of our Global Recruiters
• Next, selected candidates will be asked to complete a written Assessment
• Next, selected candidates will be invited to interview with a Manager, Product Analytics
• Next, selected candidates will be invited to interview with a Product Analyst
• Next, candidates will be invited to interview with a Product Manager, Growth
• Finally, selected candidates will be invited to interview with our Director of Product, Growth

Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page .

Compensation

To view the full job description and its compensation calculator, view our handbook. The compensation calculator can be found towards the bottom of the page.

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Requirements

• Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails or Golang
• Deep understanding of Openshift environments (usage, constraints, best practices)
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers , and clear status updates
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Self-motivated and self-managing , with strong organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization
• Share our values , and work in accordance with those values
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization
• Ability to use GitLab
• Comfort and familiarity with our code review process

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in a peak performance organization, preferably a tech startup
• Experience with the GitLab product as a user or contributor
• Product company experience
• Experience working with a remote team
• Enterprise software company experience
• Developer platform/tool industry experience
• Experience working with a global or otherwise multicultural team
• Computer science education or equivalent experience
• Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools

Responsibilities

• Develop features and improvements to the GitLab product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
• Conduct Code Review within our Code Review Guidelines and ensure community contributions receive a swift response.
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions
• Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around specific projects and community contributions.
• Confidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Participate in Tier 2 or Tier 3 weekday and weekend and occasional night on-call rotations to assist troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues

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What you can expect in a Manager or Senior Manager, Engineering Analytics role at GitLab:

• Define the tools and process to deliver data-driven insights for the Engineering Division.
• Define and maintain the Engineering Division's data visualizations, guidelines, and standards.
• Ensure accuracy of Performance Indicators in the Engineering Division and all its departments.
• Drive efficiency of Engineering Division's dashboards and metrics.
• Author your team's quarterly OKRs and the project plans to deliver on them.
• Run Engineering Analytics agile process and stand-up.
• Plan Engineering Analytics's long-term tasks and align with Quality Department's direction and vision.
• Hire and grow a team of Engineering Analysts.
• Provide guidance and coaching to Engineering Analysts.
• Collaborate closely with GitLab’s Data team.

What you can expect as a Director role:

The Above Plus

• Align the day-to-day execution of the Engineering Analytics team to the top objectives of the company. You'll be responsible for making sure our top objectives are well communicated to the entire Engineering Analytics team.
• Collaborate closely with director peers across the Engineering Division. You'll sponsor healthy conflict amongst the team to resolve issues quickly, escalating only when all options are exhausted.
• Define roles, grow, and hire your teams for what is needed from the business in the next 3-4 years.
• Coach the Engineering Analytics team to work within our communication guideline and lead by example.

Projects you might work:

You will lead Engineering Metrics efforts and a team of Analysts that delivers key actionable insights into our business bottomline.

You'll be focused on providing metrics that show a story for our Engineering Division to act upon. You'll also narrow our performance indicators to focus on the most important metrics that coincide with the major themes of each of our Departments.

You'll collaborate with cross functional stable counterparts to develop more granular analyses that give deeper insights into the performance of our Engineering Departments and a deeper view into how each Engineering product group teams are executing .

You Should Apply If You

• Are self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
• Bring a track record of using quantitative analysis to generate insights, and drive better organizational decision making.
• Demonstrate a track record of solving scaling challenges and high growth optimizations with a positive impact on a business.
• Bring significant professional experience with hands-on SQL and relational databases.
• Bring some experience in a leadership position managing an analytics team.
• Have experience with Data Visualization Tools (E.g. Sisense, Looker, Tableau).
• Have experience with Data warehouses (e.g. Snowflake).
• Are a clear and concise communicator, able to convey complex business logic, and analytical recommendations to stakeholders.
• Bring proficiency in the English language, with excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Working knowledge of Git and source control.
• Bring an ability to thrive in a fully remote organization.
• Will be able to use GitLab in the future.
• Our values of collaboration, results, efficiency, diversity, iteration, and transparency resonate with you.
• You'll thrive in an environment where self-learning and self-service are encouraged and instilled as a part of our culture.

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Experience You'll Bring

• Experience scaling a successful SaaS product is ideal. Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Git, SDKs, REST APIs, GraphQL, and Webhooks are particularly interesting keywords
• Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails or language required by the specialty.
• Professional experience with any other technologies that may be required by the specialty.
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates.
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization.
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization.