Intermediate Backend Engineer (Go)

About the Role

Join the Verify: CI Functions Platform team to re-architect GitLab Runner for ultra-scale CI/CD operations and build the foundational platform for CI Functions.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the overall direction of GitLab Runner re-architecture and CI Functions development.
• Focus efforts on building a scalable foundation for CI Functions execution.
• Help architect and build the Step Runner component that executes CI Functions across diverse infrastructure.
• Solve technical problems of medium scope and complexity.
• Define and improve internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
• Ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance.
• Collaborate with the team on larger projects and coordinate with the Runner Core team on scaling efforts.
• Participate in Tier 2 or Tier 3 on-call rotations for troubleshooting product operations and engineering issues.

Requirements

• Professional experience with Go in a large-scale environment.
• Experience in scaling SaaS products.
• Proficiency in written and verbal English sufficient for success in a remote, asynchronous environment.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly communicate complex technical problems and propose iterative solutions.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems, including diagnosing and preventing them.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Self-motivated and self-managing with strong organizational skills.

Nice-to-Haves

• Demonstrated experience with any major cloud providers or infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Demonstrated experience working with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Demonstrated experience with site reliability engineering (SRE) practices.

About the Team Impact

The team is responsible for the architectural foundation enabling GitLab Runner to execute reusable CI/CD steps at enterprise scale, allowing customers to compose pipelines from reusable components rather than complex scripts.