Quality Career Framework: Senior Backend Engineer, Engineering Productivity
These are the expected competencies of a Senior Backend Engineer, Engineering Productivity at GitLab.
Senior Backend Engineer, Engineering Productivity
Intermediate Backend Engineer | Senior Backend Engineer | Staff Backend Engineer | Engineering Framework | Quality Framework | Engineering Productivity Framework
Senior Backend Engineers, Engineering Productivity at GitLab are expected to exhibit the following competencies:
Senior Leadership Competencies
Engineering
- Communicates clearly and effectively, both written and verbally, when advising, setting expectations, or suggesting improvements. This applies whether interacting with team members, customers, or the wider community.
- Able to deliver work, even when given unclear requirements, within the context of their team.
- Demonstrates knowledge about how their group and stage fit into the larger business.
- Able to suggest alternative solutions to customer problems based on what they know about other areas of GitLab.
- Looks for opportunities for process improvements within their team and works with others to implement process changes.
Senior Technical Competencies
Engineering
- Contributes to the team’s understanding of quality and how it impacts the team’s domain with respect to their role.
- Able to take on large issues with vague requirements.
- Able to resolve complex challenges.
- Acts as a Coach and Mentor to others.
Engineering Productivity
This table refers to the responsibility terms that are defined on the team page.
| Responsibility | Description |
|---|---|
| See it and find it | Identify and implement changes to shorten developer feedback loops and implement improvements for product groups within multiple stages |
| Do it for internal team | Implement productivity improvements with quantifiable benefits for GitLab product groups within multiple stages |
| Dogfood use | Dogfood existing product features to improve the GitLab engineering workflows. Provide feedback to product teams on critical improvements which will improve the feature maturity. |
| Engineering support | Takes initiative in implementing KPI corrective actions and improvements |
| Engineering workflow | Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to identify and implement improvements or new automation in support of product and engineering workflows |
| Do it for wider community | Identifies contributor tooling improvements for the wider GitLab community contributors |
| Dogfood build | Implement small enhancements to existing features |
Senior 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.
Last modified October 29, 2024: Fix broken links (
455376ee)
