Senior Fullstack Engineer, Technical Writing

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Requirements:

• Professional experience with JavaScript (Vue.js) and static site generators (like Hugo).
• Professional experience with Ruby and Rails.
• 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.
• Experience with CI/CD Platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Develop features and improvements to the documentation site in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
• Analyze and interpret highly complex data to arrive at actionable recommendations.
• Collaborate with the Technical Writing Director and other stakeholders (e.g. UX) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Advocate for improvements to site quality, security, and performance.
• Solve technical problems of high 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.
• Represent GitLab and its values in public communications 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
• Suggest and perform enhancements to the look-and-feel of the documentation website.
• Help support the Technical Writing team by answering team member questions and triaging/responding to issues.
• Coordinate with various stakeholders regarding site content or structure changes.
• Maintain and improve the CI/CD pipelines, build processes, and review environments.
• Improve content-authoring experience and tooling.
• Perform and/or coordinate/delegate resolution of any other docs site issues related to infrastructure, code, architecture, projects, security, CI/CD, builds, deployments, upgrades, performance, scalability, metrics, monitoring, etc.