Description
GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Go) for the Gitaly team, focusing on GitLab's Git data storage tier. The ideal candidate will help build a standalone product providing reliable, secure, and fast access to Git repositories.
Responsibilities:
- Own moderately sized to complex technical initiatives from problem definition to implementation and monitoring.
- Act as the directly responsible individual for projects, aligning stakeholders and managing execution.
- Lead technical design for distributed storage, Git repository management, performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Collaborate with engineers and teams across GitLab to deliver cross-functional outcomes.
- Improve engineering practices through mentoring, documentation, and code reviews.
- Take operational ownership of systems, including incident response and post-incident improvements.
- Identify opportunities to improve workflows through automation and reusable designs.
- Respond to user emergencies, platform alerts, and support requests.
Requirements:
- Significant experience building, debugging, and optimizing distributed or highly available software systems.
- Experience owning complex projects end-to-end, including technical design, execution, and operational support.
- Strong systems design skills and ability to reason about performance, failure modes, and observability.
- Track record of influencing technical decisions and working effectively with stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring engineers and improving team practices.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Professional experience with Go or another backend or systems language.
- Experience operating production systems and participating in incident response.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with Ruby, Git internals, gRPC, or Git server infrastructure.
Benefits:
- Benefits supporting health, finances, and well-being.
- Flexible Paid Time Off.
- Team Member Resource Groups.
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Growth and Development Fund.
- Parental Leave.
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