Specialty
The role
GitLab is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer on Performance Enablement, part of Platform Enablement. The team is moving from hands-on consulting to self-service performance testing. You would build platforms, tooling and AI-assisted workflows that help engineering teams own their performance testing.
What you will do
- Build reusable backend platforms and tooling for performance testing and analysis
- Create self-service workflows, documentation, templates, diagnostics and AI skills that reduce bespoke support
- Use AI-assisted development practices for implementation, testing, debugging and documentation
- Influence engineering teams to make performance testing part of normal development and release prep
- Turn early hands-on engagements into capabilities many teams can adopt alone
- Give expert help on difficult performance questions and new platform capabilities
What they ask for
- Experience building backend or platform software
- Experience building internal platforms or developer-facing tooling
- Experience working with development teams to improve their workflows
- Experience applying AI across the software lifecycle
- Experience with performance analysis, optimization or benchmarking
- Practical experience with Kubernetes, k6 and AWS, GCP or similar cloud
- Clear writing and ability to influence teams without direct authority
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on GitLab's careers page behind the apply button.
