Quality Career Framework: Staff Backend Engineer, Engineering Productivity

Staff Backend Engineer, Engineering Productivity

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

Continually works with others across the organization to help team members grow their understanding of their team’s domain and technology.
Communicates clearly and effectively, both written and verbally, when working with managers, directors, customers and across teams, while advising others, setting expectations, or acknowledging mistakes.
Makes responsible decisions, and evaluates tradeoffs.
Exhibits a deep understanding of GitLab products, how customers use them, and how they fit into the larger business.
Looks for opportunities for process improvements and opportunities to exhibit leadership for organizational initiatives.
Able to recognize a good solution when they see one, and able to clearly explain its merits to team members, community members, managers or customers.
Leverages their increasingly on-demand time to help others, efficiently unblock them and enable them to move forward.
Is a technical leader spearheading Architecture Evolution as a DRI.

Has a broad skill-set with in-depth expertise in several areas.
Blends technical, product and design strategy, helping the team to be more productive while interfacing with teams.
Reaches beyond immediate needs, independently considering the longer-term, and is always looking beyond for ways to have a broad impact.
Addresses cross-team challenges related to customers, quality and security.
Able to take on cross-team complex requirements and decompose them into a proposal of small deliverables.
Engages in the Architecture Practice to contribute to and help with the most challenging technical initiatives.

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 stages within a section
Do it for internal team	Implement productivity improvements with quantifiable benefits for Gitlab product stages within a section
Dogfood use	Dogfood existing product features to improve the GitLab engineering workflows. Represent the Quality department as internal customer for at least one product group.
Engineering support	Implement KPI corrective actions and preventative measures. Identify areas for new department performance indicators.
Engineering workflow	Lead collaboration and implementation with product and engineering stakeholders to improve automation in support of product and engineering workflows
Do it for wider community	Identifies contributor productivity improvements for the wider GitLab community contributors
Dogfood build	Large enhancements to existing features or addition of new features. Your implementation has a large impact to a product category