# Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Insights

**Company**: GitLab
**Location**: Remote, India
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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.

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- backend engineering
- scalable systems
- data platforms
- ClickHouse
- Ruby on Rails

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