Intermediate Backend Engineer, Software Delivery: Release

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Requirements:

• Strong coding background.
• Proficiency with Ruby is a strong plus.
• Experience working on large-scale systems.
• Experience optimizing Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment pipelines.
• Interest in cloud platforms, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Application and systems observability background.
• Collaboration mindset and a demonstrable ability to learn.
• A product development mindset when developing new components.

Responsibilities:

• 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 recognize parts that could benefit from increased observability.
• Work closely with Infrastructure Platforms to control the impact of application code in user-facing products.
• Help communicate the release schedule clearly.
• Develop monitoring and alerting to measure release process velocity.
• Identify process bottlenecks and introduce optimizations.
• Participate in Release Manager rotation.