Senior Backend Engineer (Go), Tenant Scale: Gitaly

Overview

Senior Backend Engineer (Go) on GitLab’s Gitaly team, building GitLab’s Git data storage tier for reliable, secure, fast Git repository access via APIs and storage operations.

What you'll do

• Own moderately sized to complex technical initiatives from problem definition through rollout and operational follow-through.
• Serve as directly responsible individual by aligning stakeholders, communicating progress/trade-offs, and managing risks.
• Lead technical design for distributed storage, repository management, performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Partner across Git, Infrastructure, SRE, Dedicated, and customer-facing teams to deliver cross-functional outcomes.
• Improve engineering practices via mentoring, documentation, knowledge sharing, design reviews, and code reviews.
• Provide operational support including incident response, post-incident improvements, capacity/performance analysis, and customer escalations.
• Handle user emergencies, platform alerts, and support requests with regular on-call duties.

What you'll need

• Significant experience building, debugging, and optimizing distributed or highly available software in large-scale production environments.
• Experience owning complex end-to-end projects including technical design, execution, rollout, and operational support.
• Strong systems design skills covering performance, failure modes, consistency, concurrency, capacity, and observability.
• Experience with Go or another backend or systems language.
• Professional experience operating production systems and participating in incident response.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for explaining complex concepts and trade-offs.

Nice to have

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

Details

• Work location: Remote (Canada and United Kingdom listed).