Sdlc & Runtime - Gitlab Software Engineer, Vice

**Job Summary**:
**Job Type**
Permanent

**Seniority**

**Years of Experience**
Information not provided

**Tech Stacks**
HTTP HashiCorp GitLab UDP TCP AWS Terraform Docker C++ Go Factory CI Bazel Erlang Nexus Sonatype Nexus Java Linux Gradle Kubernetes C Maven Python
- You will be working at the heart of the developer experience, ensuring the code that is written by thousands of GS engineers is versioned securely, reviewed expertly, compiles fast, tests comprehensively and is distributed widely. You will deliver CI/CD solutions that support cloud native development. You could be working with cutting edge build technology from AWS & Google, or the latest cloud technology in one of more backend languages including Java, Golang, and Python.
- **SDLC Platforms Include**

Build / Development
- GitLab - The firm's strategic vendor CI/CD platform, hosted in-house with instances on-prem and on public cloud
- In-house developed Continuous Deploy (CD) tools for deploying Software packages, config and Infrastructure as Code
- Distribution - Linux and Windows software distribution system used by Gitlab, Conductor Software Factory and Train
- Artifact Repository - Primary build artifact repository hosting terabytes of internal and external software packages and industry standard asset repos such as Maven Central, NPMScopes and PyPi, running on Sonatype Nexus**Responsibilities**
- Build out our next generation instances of GitLab to support local onshore developers. This will need to be designed such that it is secure, tested, and that meets or exceeds industry standard performance and availability
- Develop features and improvements to our GitLab solution
- Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering to maintain and improve the functions and quality of service
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
- Diagnose and solve technical problems, both within the core GitLab environment, and the associated GS technical eco-system

**What You Will Learn When You Join Us**
- Cloud native architectures in AWS.
- Experience with large scale monorepos, build systems and deployment paradigms
- Expertise in commercial / open source build systems (Gradle / Bazel / Make) and strong knowledge of software change management systems
- Experience of DevOps, SRE, infrastructure (storage / networks / etc.)
- Design and implement mid to large scale distributed systems
- Partner with and provide technical guidance on best practices to the GS engineering community, revenue aligned Engineering teams, and operations teams

**Core Skills And Experience We Are Looking For**
- Associate/ Vice President: Min. 3/5 years of relevant industry experience respectively
- Ability to use and familiarity with GitLab
- Professional experience with Cloud deployment patterns. Specifically AWS cloud constructs, as well as Hashicorp Terraform
- General knowledge of multiple languages, and in-depth strong programming skills of at least one of: Golang, Erlang, Java, Python, C, C++, Java
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Experience with all stages in the lifecycle of developing and running large distributed systems
- Experience with diagnosis, prevention and management of performance, availability and scale of mid
- to large-sized systems
- Passionate about the software development process and facilitating high frequency / high quality change across a vibrant and diverse user community
- Strong written and verbal English language skills

**ATTITUDES WE WANT**
- Ability to thrive in our global organization in an output driven, fast paced, hybrid and asynchronous work place
- Team player, eager to work in a global organization.
- Ability to communicate technical and organizational challenges and propose high quality solutions
- Comfort working in an agile environment
- Self-managed and good organization skills

**Preferred Qualifications**
- BSc, MSc or PhD in relevant field (Computer Science, Maths, Physics)- Knowledgeable about networking (TCP, UDP, ICMP, ARP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, SSH, etc)
- Experience with Cloud and Infrastructure as Code technologies - AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, etc