👨🏻‍💻 Senior Fullstack Engineer, Data Stores

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab. An overview of this role The Tenant Scale team is focused on a long-term scaling solution for GitLab. The charter of this group is to explore, iterate on, validate, and lead the implementation of proposals to provide a solution to accommodate Gitlab.com's daily-active user growth. We are accomplishing this through the introduction of a Cells architecture along with an Organization entity that will be the vehicle to associate a customer’s data with a specific Cell. Hopefully this is the type of work that gets you excited about joining the team, if so please read on! Fullstack Engineers work across the backend and frontend parts of our product. This includes both the open-source version of GitLab, the enterprise editions, and the GitLab.com service. They work with peers on teams dedicated to areas of the product. The efforts led by the Tenant Scale team will have an impact across all of GitLab. You will be part of a group that is changing functionality used by all features in GitLab and consulting with development groups and sub-departments to implement changes required to support our Cells architecture. Some examples of our projects: Cells Organization What you’ll do Develop new features in collaboration with our product management, UX, backend and frontend teams Keep changes small and iterate towards the best solution Documenting best practices or patterns to avoid Developing tooling to proactively inform developers of potential performance issues Research, design and implement solutions to improve product performance What you’ll bring Professional experience with Ruby on Rails Unit testing with RSpec Professional software engineering experience with databases (preferably PostgreSQL) in large production environments Familiarity with GraphQL and building frontend webapps with GraphQL Professional experience with VueJS or another modern JavaScript web framework (React, Angular, Ember, etc) A solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts Unit testing Vue components and JavaScript with Jest Proficiency in CSS with an emphasis on modern features such as flexbox and grid Experience with white-box tests that use Selenium or Webdriver A solid understanding of core web and browser concepts (eg. how the browser parses and constructs a web page). You are passionate about open source. Strong written communication skills. Self-motivated and have strong organizational skills. You share our values, and work in accordance with those values. About the team The Tenant Scale group is part of the Data Stores stage. We offer support for groups, projects, and user profiles within our product, but our main focus is a long-term horizontal scaling solution for GitLab. The team’s handbook page covers processes and information specific to the Tenant Scale group. See also the direction page and the features we support per category.