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We are seeking a Backend Engineer to join our growing Plan:Knowledge team as the Markdown expert and Directly Responsible Individual (DRI). The Plan:Knowledge team is focused on GitLab's suite of tools for knowledge management practices and collaboration, with particular emphasis on our markdown processing pipeline and text rendering systems.
As a Backend Engineer, you'll be the technical lead for GitLab's markdown infrastructure, including our GLFM (GitLab Flavored Markdown) implementation, the gitlab-glfm-markdown gem, and our Rust and Ruby based markdown processing systems. You'll work closely with experienced engineers across backend, frontend, security, and product teams while being the go-to expert for markdown-related architecture decisions and knowledge sharing.
Some key challenges you'll help solve include:
About the team
We work closely with the larger GitLab Plan Stage while maintaining our specialized focus on knowledge management. Our technical stack includes Rails, Go and Rust backends and Vue.js frontends.
You’ll be joining a team of 6 engineers. Plan:Knowledge team owns Markdown, Rich Text Editor, GLQL Views, Gitlab Wiki, GitLab Pages, and everything related to text editing in GitLab. Our focus is transforming knowledge management experience into a fully-featured collaborative solution that would be used across the entire GitLab product.
As the Backend Engineer, you will work on the many highly requested features as well as maintaining the existing features. You’ll get to know our codebase, roadmap, and working methods. You will be empowered to take ownership and drive the implementation of the prioritized features or defects. You’ll help the team and community via code review, issue refinement, engaging with users and open-source contributors on public issues and merge requests, and advocating for process improvements.
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