Quality Career Framework: Intermediate Backend Engineer, Engineering Productivity
These are the expected competencies of an Intermediate Backend Engineer, Engineering Productivity at GitLab.
Intermediate Backend Engineer, Engineering Productivity
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Intermediate Backend Engineers, Engineering Productivity at GitLab are expected to exhibit the following competencies:
Intermediate Leadership Competencies
Engineering
- Assumes goodwill, and is able to disagree and commit.
- Capable of delivering work despite periodical distractions.
- Constructively raises concerns.
- Communicates in a clear, timely, and effective manner.
- Capable of adapting their messaging to technical audience.
- Understands organization structure and processes.
Intermediate Technical Competencies
Engineering
- Considers quality, security, and performance of assigned tasks.
- Independently plans, estimates and, delivers small and moderate solutions.
- Seeks guidance when blocked and iterates to a solution.
- Performs thorough reviews within their domain and provides helpful feedback to team members.
- Encourages participation and engages with contributions from those in the community.
Engineering Productivity
This table refers to the responsibility terms that are defined on the team page.
| Responsibility | Description |
|---|---|
| See it and find it | Identify opportunities to shorten developer feedback loops and implement improvements for product groups within a stage |
| Do it for internal team | Implement and collaborate with other EP engineers on productivity improvements that deliver quantifiable benefits for GitLab product groups within a stage |
| Dogfood use | Identify existing product features to dogfood or new product improvements that could be leveraged for GitLab engineering workflows |
| Engineering support | Identify KPI corrective actions and improvements. Implement corrective action improvements with guidance. |
| Engineering workflow | Implement automated processes for improving label classification hygiene in support of product and engineering workflows |
| Dogfood build | Provides input on enhancements to existing features from team perspective |
Intermediate Values Alignment
GitLab
- Adhere to the Collaboration Competencies for this job grade.
- Adhere to the Results Competencies for this job grade.
- Adhere to the Efficiency Competencies for this job grade.
- Adhere to the Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Competencies for this job grade.
- Adhere to the Iteration Competencies for this job grade.
- Adhere to the Transparency Competencies for this job grade.
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