Senior Backend Engineer (Go), Tenant Scale: Gitaly

GitLab is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Go) to join the Gitaly team, which focuses on building GitLab's Git data storage tier.

As a Backend Engineer on the Gitaly team, you'll help build a standalone product that provides reliable, secure, and fast access to Git repositories through application programming interfaces (APIs) and storage operations.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Owning moderately sized to complex technical initiatives from problem definition and proposal through implementation, rollout, monitoring, and operational follow-through.
• Acting as the directly responsible individual for projects by aligning stakeholders, communicating progress and trade-offs, identifying risks, and keeping execution moving with minimal guidance.
• Leading technical design for distributed storage, Git repository management, performance, reliability, and scalability problems, using data and benchmarking to guide decisions.
• Partnering with engineers and teams across GitLab to deliver cross-functional outcomes.
• Improving engineering practices through mentoring, documentation, knowledge sharing, design reviews, and constructive code reviews.
• Taking operational ownership of the systems you work on, including incident response, post-incident improvements, capacity and performance analysis, and customer escalations.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Significant professional experience building, debugging, and optimizing distributed or highly available software systems in large-scale production environments.
• Experience owning complex projects end to end, including technical design, execution, rollout, and operational support.
• Strong systems design skills and the ability to reason about performance, failure modes, consistency, concurrency, capacity, and observability.
• A track record of influencing technical decisions and working effectively with stakeholders across teams and disciplines.
• Experience mentoring engineers, improving team practices, and raising the quality of designs, code, testing, and documentation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts and make trade-offs clear.
• Professional experience with Go or another backend or systems language.
• Experience operating production systems, participating in incident response, and turning operational learnings into durable improvements.

The base salary range for this role is 272,000 - 408,000 PLN.

GitLab supports full-time employees with benefits, flexible paid time off, team member resource groups, equity compensation, and a growth and development fund.