Intermediate Backend Engineer (Ruby on rails), CI Platform

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Requirements:

• Professional experience with Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL.
• Experience working with a platform or complex application (Large scale is a bonus).
• Familiarity building and deploying software with CI/CD or other internal tooling.
• Familiarity with distributed, scalable and reliable systems.
• A user of modern DevOps platforms. (GitLab is a bonus.)
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
• Experience working in a highly agile, iterative software development process.
• 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.

Responsibilities:

• Implement performance and scale improvements for GitLab CI in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Collaborate with other stakeholders within Engineering (e.g. other Database or Infrastructure teams) to set best practices in managing a sustainable platform and to maintain a high bar for quality.
• Advocate for improvements to reliability, security, and performance.
• 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 (“technical debt”), 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.
• Work with your team to assess technical feasibility and discuss how best to iterate on complex problems. This might involve working on proof-of-concept proposals to help guide technical discussions.
• Take ownership of what we build, focusing on stability and availability.