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Senior Backend Engineer (Go), Tenant Scale: Gitaly

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  • Engineering
  • Remote
  • Full time
  • Yesterday
Newly posted

About the role

As a Backend Engineer on the Gitaly team, you will help build GitLab’s Git data storage tier, a standalone product providing reliable and fast access to Git repositories. You will work at the boundary between GitLab and Git to ensure repository access is performant for GitLab.com, self-managed customers, and GitLab Dedicated. The role involves balancing roadmap delivery, technical improvements, and operational support for distributed storage and high-availability systems.

Responsibilities

  • Own moderately sized to complex technical initiatives from problem definition through implementation and operational follow-through.
  • Act as the directly responsible individual for projects by aligning stakeholders and identifying risks.
  • Lead technical design for distributed storage, Git repository management, performance, and scalability problems.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams including Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering, and Dedicated to deliver outcomes.
  • Improve engineering practices through mentoring, documentation, and code reviews.
  • Take operational ownership of systems including incident response, capacity analysis, and customer escalations.
  • Identify opportunities for automation, reusable designs, and improvements to development workflows.
  • Respond to user emergencies and platform alerts as part of regular on-call duties.

Required skills

  • Go
  • Distributed systems
  • Systems design
  • Performance optimization
  • Incident response
  • Scalability

Nice to have

  • Ruby
  • Git internals
  • gRPC
  • Git server infrastructure

Benefits

  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Team Member Resource Groups
  • Equity Compensation
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Growth and Development Fund
  • Parental Leave

About the Company

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity and improve operational efficiency. More than 50 million registered users and over 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship secure software faster.

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