Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Insights

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Foundations team, focusing on Data Insights Platform, Siphon, and the Query API.

As a Senior Backend Engineer in Platform Insights, you'll build and evolve the core backend systems that power GitLab's data platform. You will primarily focus on Go-based development for the Data Insights Platform and Siphon, with an emphasis on core system design, production readiness, and deployment across GitLab environments.

Key responsibilities:

• Design, build, and evolve backend services in Go for the Data Insights Platform and Siphon.
• Own significant parts of the backend architecture for Data Insights Platform, Siphon, and the Query API.
• Contribute to systems built around replication, buffering, query-serving, and query-oriented storage patterns.
• Drive production readiness and deployment of Data Insights Platform and Siphon across GitLab environments.
• Debug and improve complex distributed systems in production.
• Work closely with Infrastructure, Data, and peer Engineering teams on technical design, iteration planning, code review, and delivery.

Requirements:

• Strong backend engineering experience in Go.
• Experience designing scalable, reliable systems for high-throughput or data-intensive workloads.
• Experience building and evolving APIs and service integrations.
• Experience working on data platforms, data systems, event pipelines, or other foundational infrastructure.
• Experience with ClickHouse or similar query-focused data stores.
• Working knowledge of Ruby on Rails.
• Experience with infrastructure concerns such as reliability, observability, performance, and deployment across production environments.

Benefits:

• Benefits to support your 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.