Senior Backend Engineer, Manage: Access
GitLab's DevOps platform empowers 100,000+ organizations to deliver software faster and more efficiently. We are one of the world’s largest all-remote companies with 1,400+ team members and values that guide a culture where people embrace the belief that everyone can contribute.
As a Senior Backend Engineer in our Manage: Access group, you'll play a key role in the implementation of various authentication strategies in our scaling platform. Our Manage: Access group work across many core components that are used by the rest of the GitLab team, which means you get exposure to and impact a lot of the GitLab products.
Want to see some of the challenges the team are working through? Check them out:
- Moving to an Attribute-based access control system
- Driving performance optimizations
- Supporting a broader range of Single Sign-On (SSO) providers
What's great about working for GitLab?
- 100% remote and we work asynchronously - which means we focus on results and you get the work done when it suits you
- We have a "no ask, must tell" paid-time-off policy, where we don't count the number of days you take off annually
- You're helping to build a platform that is built for developers, by developers
- We take Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging seriously, have a look at what we're doing
- We live by our Values
- Want to know more? See all there is to see here - https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/
What you'll do in this role
- Contribute to the overall direction of Manage: Access.
- Play a key role in the implementation of various authentication strategies into our product.
- Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.
- Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
- Represent GitLab and its values in public communication around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions.
- Provide mentorship for Junior and Intermediate Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.
- Confidently ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members.
- Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
- Improve the engineering projects at GitLab via maintainer trainee program at your own comfortable pace, while striving to become a project maintainer.
You should apply if you bring:
- Significant professional experience with Ruby on Rails.
- Experience in a scaling SaaS product.
- Familiarity with authentication or authorization technologies & techniques such as SAML, SSO, SCIM, LDAP, ABAC, IAM, or PAM will help you stand out. These are not a prerequisite but great to know.
- 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 complex problems and 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.
- Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
- Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
- Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.
Also, we know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the confidence gap. You don’t have to match all the listed requirements exactly to be considered for this role.
Our hiring process for this Senior Backend Engineer, Manage: Access position typically follows four stages. The details of this process and our leveling structure can be found on our job family page.
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. § 8-5-101 et seq.
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