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The role
GitLab is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer (Go) for the Gitaly team, which builds the Git data storage tier behind GitLab.com, self-managed and Dedicated. This listing is for candidates in specified EU countries.
What you will do
- Own technical initiatives from proposal through implementation, rollout and monitoring
- Lead design work on distributed storage, Git repository management, performance and scalability
- Work with Git, Infrastructure, SRE, Dedicated and customer-facing teams
- Mentor engineers and run design and code reviews
- Handle incident response, capacity analysis and customer escalations
- Take regular on-call duties and answer platform alerts
What they ask for
- Significant experience building and optimizing distributed or highly available systems in production
- Professional experience with Go or another backend or systems language
- Strong systems design skills covering performance, failure modes, consistency and concurrency
- Experience operating production systems and handling incidents
- Experience owning complex projects end to end
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Ruby, Git internals or gRPC experience is desirable
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on GitLab's careers page behind the apply button.
