Senior Backend Engineer, Fulfillment (Ruby/Compliance)

Airtm; United States; Remote; USD 117,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative global company is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their Fulfillment Platform team. This role is pivotal in maintaining compliance systems that support the quote-to-cash processes. You will work on automating compliance reporting, enhancing governance practices, and ensuring data integrity. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in Ruby on Rails and backend development, with a keen understanding of financial compliance requirements. Join a dynamic team that values collaboration and innovation, and contribute to impactful projects that drive efficiency and transparency.

Benefits

Flexible Paid Time Off

Growth and development budget

Parental leave

Home office support

Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Benefits to support health and well-being

All remote, asynchronous work environment

Team Member Resource Groups

Qualifications

• Professional experience in Ruby on Rails is essential.
• Strong backend development skills required for reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance SOX compliance reporting tools.
• Lead development of automated tools for tracking changes.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Backend Development

Financial Compliance

Data Integrity

Statistical Analysis

Job description

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensiveAI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Ourmissionisto enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software thatpowers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers becomecontributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress.This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, buildproducts, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab byrunning ouroperationson our product and staying aligned with ourvalues. Learn more aboutLife at GitLab.

Thanks to products likeDuo Enterprise, andDuo Workflow,customers get the benefit of AI at every stage of the SDLC. The sameprinciples built into our products are reflected in how our team works:we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier. All team members areencouraged and expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows todrive efficiency, innovation, and impact across our global organisation.

An overview of this role

The Fulfillment Platform team at GitLab is responsible formaintaining critical systems that enable GitLab's quote-to-cashprocesses. Our team owns the CustomersDot application, which integrateswith systems like Zuora, Salesforce, and marketplace partners to managebilling accounts, subscriptions, add-ons, and licenses.

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Fulfillment Platform team, youwill focus on SOX compliance initiatives, building automated tools andprocesses that demonstrate adherence to regulatory requirements. Youwill help develop solutions for monitoring, analyzing, and reporting oncompliance-related activities, particularly around merge requests andcode changes. Your work will enhance GitLab's governance practices,streamline the compliance process, and provide valuable insights intodevelopment workflows that impact financial systems.

Some examples of our projects:

• Automated SOX compliance reporting for feature split and code churn analysis
• Analyzing repository changes, merge requests, and commit patterns for compliance reporting
• Building data collection infrastructure for package analysis
• Developing comprehensive reporting systems with CSV exports and visualizations

What you’ll do

• Maintain and enhance our SOX compliance reporting tools
• Lead the development of automated tools that track and document changes between GitLab releases
• Implement statistical analysis of code changes between versions
• Create parsers for multiple dependency formats and convert them to unified formats
• Develop Git analytics engines to track repository changes and analyze commit patterns
• Build systems to infer merge requests from commits and analyze their metadata
• Collaborate with auditors to ensure compliance requirements are met
• Review and offer feedback on merge requests from other Fulfillment Platform developers

What you’ll bring

• Professional experience working in Ruby on Rails
• Strong backend development skills with experience building reporting and monitoring tools
• Understanding of financial compliance requirements (SOX experience is a plus)
• Experience working with data integrity and governance concepts
• A strong curiosity to understand how systems work holistically and how they impact compliance requirements
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal,sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous workenvironment
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate aboutcomplex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems andpropose thorough iterative solutions
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values

About the team

GitLab's Fulfillment Platform team brings together talented engineersfrom all around the world to build and maintain the criticalinfrastructure that enables GitLab's business operations. The teamfocuses on three key categories:

1. Fulfillment Infrastructure: Building reliable, scalable systems with 99.95% target availability
2. CustomersDot Application: Managing the central application for billing accounts, subscriptions, and licenses
3. Fulfillment Admin Tooling: Creating tools for internal teams to efficiently serve customers

This role specifically supports our compliance initiatives, ensuringour systems meet regulatory requirements while maintaining therobustness and reliability our customers expect. As GitLab continues togrow, the Fulfillment Platform team's work in compliance becomesincreasingly critical to the company's success.

Mission

Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute and co-create thesoftware that powers our world. The Fulfillment Platform group's missionis to build reliable, scalable QTC systems, while enabling internalteams to serve customers efficiently. They ensure data integrity,compliance, and system resilience across GitLab’s fulfillment processes

How GitLab will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and development budget
• Parental leave
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varyinglevels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet everysingle requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groupsare less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every singlequalification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allowour recruiters to assess your application.

Remote-Global

Thebase salary range for this role’s listed level is currently forresidents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges aredetermined through interviews and a review of education, experience,knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other teammembers, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.

California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota pay range

$117,600 - $252,000 USD

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