Backend Engineer; Ruby), Software Supply Chain Security: Compliance

Staff Backend Engineer (Ruby), Software Supply Chain Security:
Compliance

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As a Staff Backend Engineer in our Compliance group, you'll provide technical leadership in maturing enterprise‑grade Compliance features which have a direct impact on Git Lab's enterprise sales success. The Compliance group's mission is to provide visibility into an organization's compliance posture within Git Lab and provide tools for organizations to identify non‑compliant activities and scope enforcement of compliance requirements. The compliance group is focused on two key areas;
Compliance Management and Audit Events. Our biggest challenge is to design and implement a scalable backend architecture that will support our ambitious expansion plans. As a Staff Engineer, you'll be instrumental in defining the technical strategy and architectural decisions that will shape the future of our compliance features, with a particular focus on backend systems, data processing, and API design.

• Compliance Frameworks
• Adherence Report
• Streaming audit events

• Drive technical excellence by defining and implementing backend architectural solutions that solve complex compliance challenges at scale
• Lead the technical direction of the Compliance group's backend systems and play a pivotal role in shaping Git Lab's Compliance offering through strategic technical decisions
• Design and implement robust, scalable APIs and data models that support compliance features
• Identify and proactively address technical debt while implementing solutions that improve backend performance, reliability, and maintainability
• Represent Git Lab in public communications about compliance initiatives and interact with enterprise customers as a technical spokesperson
• Mentor backend engineers across the team to help them grow technically and remove impediments to their autonomy
• Define and maintain internal standards for backend code quality, security, and performance that impact both the Compliance group and adjacent teams
• Solve complex backend technical problems involving data processing, system integration, and scalability
• Drive innovation in our backend systems by experimenting with new approaches to complex compliance challenges
• Provide technical leadership in planning sessions and architectural discussions to ensure backend scalability, performance, and maintainability

• Extensive experience architecting and maintaining large-scale Ruby on Rails applications, with deep expertise in backend systems and advanced testing strategies with RSpec
• Strong technical leadership in API design and implementation, with particular expertise in Graph
  
  QL API architecture and backend performance optimization
• Expert‑level understanding of database design and optimization, particularly with Postgre
  
  SQL, including experience with performance tuning, scaling, and complex query optimization
• Deep expertise in backend security principles and experience implementing compliance‑focused security measures in enterprise applications
• Experience designing and implementing event‑driven architectures and background processing systems
• Advanced knowledge of caching strategies, query optimization, and backend performance tuning
• Proven ability to influence technical decisions across teams and communicate complex architectural solutions to various stakeholders
• Track record of mentoring backend engineers and driving adoption of best practices across engineering teams
• Experience leading technical initiatives that span multiple backend…