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GitLabSenior Backend Engineer (Go), Tenant Scales: Gitaly
GitLab operates an intelligent orchestration platform designed for DevSecOps, aiding organizations in boosting developer productivity, decreasing compliance risks, and accelerating digital transformation. The company is currently…
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GitLab operates an intelligent orchestration platform designed for DevSecOps, aiding organizations in boosting developer productivity, decreasing compliance risks, and accelerating digital transformation. The company is currently hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Tenant Scales team focusing on Gitaly. In this position, you will contribute to the development of GitLab's Git data storage tier, delivering fast, reliable, and secure access to Git repositories through APIs and storage operations. Your…
Job Description
GitLab operates an intelligent orchestration platform designed for DevSecOps, aiding organizations in boosting developer productivity, decreasing compliance risks, and accelerating digital transformation. The company is currently hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Tenant Scales team focusing on Gitaly.
In this position, you will contribute to the development of GitLab's Git data storage tier, delivering fast, reliable, and secure access to Git repositories through APIs and storage operations. Your work will bridge the gap between Git and GitLab, ensuring dependable repository access for self-managed clients, GitLab Dedicated, and GitLab.com. The role involves distributed storage, high availability, performance tuning, operational excellence, and shaping the next generation of source code management.
This role suits professionals who value pragmatic engineering, thoughtful trade-offs, and continuous improvement while managing a critical service. You will balance roadmap objectives, technical enhancements, customer requests, and operational support duties, including incident response and on-call rotations.
Responsibilities
- Manage technical initiatives from initial problem definition through implementation, rollout, monitoring, and operational follow-through
- Lead technical design efforts addressing distributed storage, scalability, and performance problems using data and benchmarking
- Partner with cross-functional teams including Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering, and Git to deliver shared outcomes
- Take operational ownership of systems through incident management, capacity analysis, and customer escalations
- Contribute to engineering practices via mentorship, code reviews, and documentation
- Participate in on-call schedules and respond to user emergencies, support requests, and platform alerts
Requirements
- Professional experience building, optimizing, and debugging distributed or highly available software systems in large-scale production environments
- Demonstrated history of taking complex projects from design to execution and operational support
- Proficiency in systems design with a strong understanding of concurrency, performance, failure modes, consistency, and observability
- Experience mentoring engineers and elevating code, design, and testing quality
- Professional background utilizing Go or another systems or backend programming language
- Experience operating production systems and handling incident response
Qualifications
- Professional experience with Ruby
- Familiarity with Git internals
- Experience working with gRPC
- Familiarity with Git server infrastructure
Core Skills
Benefits
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental Leave
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Is a specific office location required for this role?
The posting states that GitLab hires team members globally with remote options, though specific location-based eligibility requirements may apply to certain roles.
What programming language is required?
The role requires professional experience with Go or another backend or systems language.
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