Backend Engineer (RoR), Monitor: Optimize in Belgium

Backend Engineer (RoR), Monitor: Optimize

Remote

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An overview of this role

As a Backend Engineer in the Optimize team, you will play a critical role in developing and maintaining the backend systems that power analytical reports. You will work on building scalable, high-performance systems to gather, process, and present key metrics that guide our customers toward better decision-making. Your contributions will directly impact the value our clients derive from their data, helping them optimize their development practices for maximum impact.

In this role, you’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and refine backend services that ensure accuracy, reliability, and speed in delivering insights.

Here are links to documentation related to some of our features:

• Value stream analytics (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/value_stream_analytics/)

• DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/analytics/dora_metrics.html)

• AI Impact analytics (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/analytics/ai_impact_analytics.html)

What You’ll Do

• Maintain and develop backend services for analytical data used within the team

• Peer review merge requests within the engineering organization

• Collaborate with stable counterparts to refine and support the Optimize team’s roadmap (https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/7800)

• Ensure that the Optimize team’s features are stable and performant

What You’ll Bring

• Experience with Ruby and PostgreSQL in production

• A strong database background

• Experience in developing efficient background processing services in sidekiq

• Familiarity with industry standard metrics such as DORA

• Excellent written communication skills

• Experience writing database queries in ClickHouse (Bonus)

About the team

The Optimize team is dedicated to empowering our customers by providing deep insights into their development processes. We build analytical tools, such as Value Stream Analytics, DORA metrics, and AI Impact Analytics, to help teams optimize workflows, improve efficiency, and measure ROI.

The team is geographically dispersed across multiple time zones and we depend heavily on async communication. More information on how the team works can be found on our team page (https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/development/dev/plan/optimize) .

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/)

• All remote (https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/) , asynchronous (https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/asynchronous/) work environment

• Flexible Paid Time Off (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/paid-time-off/)

• Team Member Resource Groups

• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/stock-options/)

• Growth and development budget (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/#growth-and-development-benefit)

• Parental leave (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/benefits/general-and-entity-benefits/#parental-leave)

• Home office (https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/finance/procurement/office-equipment-supplies/) support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups (https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/inclusion/#examples-of-select-underrepresented-groups) are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you’re excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

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