Intermediate Backend Engineer, Govern: Compliance

  • GitLab
  • Remote
  • 23 Sep, 2024

Job Description

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

An overview of this role

As a Backend Engineer in our Compliance group, you'll play a key role in maturing enterprise-grade Compliance features which have a direct impact on GitLab's enterprise sales success. The Compliance group’s mission is to provide visibility into an organization's compliance posture within GitLab and provide tools for organizations to identify non-compliant activities and scope enforcement of compliance requirements.

The compliance group is focused on two key areas; Compliance Management and Audit Events. Our biggest challenge is to continue expanding the feature maturity and build a robust and solid architecture to expand on. As part of this we have an ambitious plan to expand our features and are looking for a backend engineer to help plan and push this forward. 


Some examples of our projects: 

What you’ll do  

  • Write high-quality, efficient, and maintainable code while adhering to best practices and contributing to code reviews
  • Contribute to the overall direction of the Compliance group and play a key role in maturing GitLab's Compliance offering.
  • Embrace continuous learning and stay connected with industry best practices, tools, and technologies to drive improvements in our software
  • Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
  • Contribute to our development process by asking questions and providing feedback to make us better as a team
  • Collaborate with more Senior Engineers on the architectural plans and technical designs ensuring scalability, performance, maintainability and measurability
  • Participate in agile development practices, including planning sessions, stand-ups, and retrospectives, to drive iterative software development and continuous improvement for the team

What you’ll bring 

  • Strong experience in building, deploying, and maintaining Ruby on Rails applications, with a deep understanding of the Rails ecosystem.
  • A strong background in developing secure applications and a keen understanding of how to protect them against modern security threats.
  • Proficiency in writing efficient SQL queries, preferably with PostgreSQL, to manage and manipulate data effectively.
  • An ability to self manage and organize in an asynchronous and collaborative work environment
  • Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
  • Familiarity with various stages of software development end-to-end (Agile methodologies is a plus)
  • Proven ability to work effectively in a team including product managers, designers, and other engineers
  • A commitment to continuous learning and openness to giving and receiving feedback as a part of fostering individual and team development

About the team

Thanks to our Transparency value, you can see what we are working on in our Team page. You can even see our roadmap and listen to some of our meetings and view some of our recent demos.

How GitLab will support you

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations 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.

California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC pay range
$98,000$210,000 USD

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