Intermediate Backend Engineer, Git

🕒 April 14

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GitLab

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise • SaaS

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform, offering tools for automated software delivery, security, and compliance throughout the software development lifecycle. It provides solutions across areas such as AI-assisted development, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), source code management, and vulnerability management. GitLab aims to simplify and accelerate software delivery by uniting development, security, and operations on a unified platform. It is particularly recognized for its AI code assistants and has been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms, making it a preferred choice for many enterprises.

📋 Description

• Participate in architectural discussions and technical decisions related to Git and Gitaly, helping drive implementation choices that improve correctness, performance, and maintainability. • Contribute features, bug fixes, and performance improvements to upstream Git in line with team and community goals, delivering changes that improve repository access and reliability for users. • Adapt Gitaly to make effective use of Git capabilities, including integrating newly available features to improve scalability, efficiency, and long-term maintainability. • Connect discussions in the open source Git project with GitLab's product direction and engineering work, helping align upstream contributions with product and platform needs. • Scope tasks, estimate effort, and describe implementation plans that support the team's priorities and enable predictable delivery of technical work. • Test and validate the features you build and integrate, with a focus on correctness and reliability to reduce regressions and support stable production use. • Collaborate with team members, contributors and the Git ecosystem • Represent GitLab as a constructive participant in the open source ecosystem, building productive relationships that support ongoing collaboration with the Git community.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience building instrumented, observable software systems. • Knowledge of Git internals, including its code and data structures, or practical experience operating Git servers. • Experience writing and testing production-quality code in C. • Experience contributing to open source projects, including Git or similar systems, and working effectively in public collaboration spaces. • Familiarity with Go for backend development and understanding of Linux internals such as processes, memory management, input/output, and filesystems. • Interest or experience in large-scale or distributed systems, storage formats, graph theory, or highly available production environments, including transferable backend or infrastructure experience.

🏖️ 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 • Home office support