Senior Backend Engineer (Go), Tenant Scale: Gitaly

About the Role

Join the Gitaly team at GitLab to build and enhance the core Git data storage tier, a critical component for reliable, secure, and fast Git repository access.

Responsibilities

• Own moderately sized to complex technical initiatives from problem definition through implementation and operational follow-through.
• Lead technical design for distributed storage, Git repository management, performance, reliability, and scalability problems.
• Partner with engineers and teams across GitLab to deliver cross-functional outcomes.
• Take operational ownership of systems, including incident response, capacity analysis, and customer escalations.
• Respond to user emergencies, platform alerts, and support requests, including 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 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.
• 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.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with Ruby, Git internals, gRPC, or Git server infrastructure.