The Delivery Group is responsible for guaranteeing and improving the software delivery for GitLab.com, as well as for self-managed users by improving the release management tooling and processes. Delivery engineers work closely with teams across Development, Test, Security, and Production Engineering to ensure features are delivered in a safe, scalable and efficient fashion.
Responsibilities
Backend Engineers with Delivery:Releases specialization work alongside Site Reliability Engineers with a focus primarily on improving release management tooling and processes. While the SRE's approach their responsibilities from an operational perspective, Backend Engineers approach the same problems from a software developer point of view and collaborate closely on finding an optimal solution that will safely and quickly deliver code to various supported environments.
- 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 helps recognize parts of code that could benefit from increased observability
- Work closely with peer Infrastructure teams to control the impact of application code running in user facing products
- Help communicate the release schedule clearly with others
- Develop monitoring and alerting to measure release process velocity
- Identify process bottlenecks and introduce optimizations
- Participate in Release Manager rotation
Requirements
As an ideal candidate, you will have
- Proficiency with Ruby, experience with Ruby on Rails as a plus
- Boundless curiosity and a demonstrable ability to learn
- Experience working on large scale systems
- Experience optimizing Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment pipelines as well as the tooling and processes that go with them
- A strong application and systems observability background
- A product development mindset when developing new components
You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
Performance indicators
The Delivery team has the following performance indicators:
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