| That's certainly a valid concern! From my perspective, the programming skills in these job descriptions are one requirement among many others, and I'm not sure how much weight it really has in the hiring process for these roles, especially if your other skills are a good enough match. We do have this note on all job pages, which maybe should be more prominent: > Avoid the confidence gap; you do not have to match all the listed requirements exactly to apply. Some amount of general programming experience is definitely required though, since SREs and DBEs frequently have to dig into our codebase and things like Ansible runbooks. And especially regarding SQL, a lot of it is heavily abstracted not only through the Rails ORM but also our own code. Found some other jobs that focus less on programming, though we don't have current openings for most of these either: - https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/engineering/cloud-nati... - https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/engineering/infrastruc... - https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/engineering/monitoring... - https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/engineering/security-e... - https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/engineering/vulnerabil... We don't seem to have a good overview of all roles, I found these through https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/tree/master/sou... :) |