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

Senior Backend Engineers, Engineering Productivity at GitLab are expected to exhibit the following competencies:

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.

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.

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