Senior Backend Engineer, Go, Tenant Scale – Gitaly

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🌐 Poland, United Kingdom – Remote

🇵🇱 Poland – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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GitLab

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Consulting • Marketing • Artificial Intelligence

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

• Build GitLab’s Git data storage tier through reliable, secure, and fast repository access APIs and storage operations • Own technical initiatives from problem definition and proposal through implementation, rollout, monitoring, and operational follow-through • Act as directly responsible individual for projects, aligning stakeholders, communicating progress and trade-offs, identifying risks, and driving execution • Lead technical design for distributed storage, Git repository management, performance, reliability, and scalability problems • Partner with Git, Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering, Dedicated, and customer-facing teams • Improve engineering practices through mentoring, documentation, knowledge sharing, design reviews, and code reviews • Own operational responsibilities including incident response, post-incident improvements, capacity and performance analysis, and customer escalations • Improve automation, reusable designs, dashboards, upstream contributions, and development/testing workflows • Respond to user emergencies, platform alerts, and support requests, including regular on-call duties

🎯 Requirements

• 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 ability to reason about performance, failure modes, consistency, concurrency, capacity, and observability • Track record of influencing technical decisions and working effectively with cross-functional stakeholders • Experience mentoring engineers and improving designs, code, testing, and documentation • 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 • Experience with Ruby, Git internals, gRPC, or Git server infrastructure is highly desirable

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being • Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) • Team Member Resource Groups • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Growth and Development Fund • Parental Leave • Remote work arrangement