Intermediate Backend (Go) Engineer, Gitaly

2 Hours ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Backend (Go) Engineer to join the Gitaly team. This role involves participating in architectural discussions, designing RPC interfaces, and developing Gitaly, the Git data storage tier of GitLab. Responsibilities include instrumenting, monitoring, and profiling Gitaly in the production environment, as well as building dashboards and alerts. The engineer will also be responsible for writing high-quality code, peer reviewing, and contributing to the improvement of the software and its security. The position requires a strong understanding of distributed storage systems and a commitment to GitLab's values. The engineer will work in a remote, agile environment and collaborate with other engineers, product managers, and designers.
Must have:
  • Proven professional experience in large-scale environments.
  • Professional experience writing and testing high-quality code.
  • Good understanding of building observable software systems.
Good to have:
  • Professional experience writing and testing quality code in Go.
  • Good understanding of git’s internal data structures or experience running git servers.
  • Experience with gRPC.
  • Willingness to learn Ruby.
  • Experience running highly-available systems in production environments.

Job Details

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise, and Duo Workflow, customers get the benefit of AI at every stage of the SDLC. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier. All team members are encouraged and expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact across our global organisation.

The GitLab DevSecOps platform empowers 100,000+ organizations to deliver software faster and more efficiently. We are one of the world’s largest all-remote companies with 2,000+ team members and values that foster a culture where people embrace the belief that everyone can contribute. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

 

At GitLab, developers are independent and self-organized individual contributors who work together as a tight team in a remote and agile way.  Most backend developers work on all aspects of GitLab, building features, fixing bugs, and generally improving the application. Senior Backend Engineers at GitLab work on our product. This includes both the open source version of GitLab, the enterprise editions, and the GitLab.com service as well. They work with peers on teams dedicated to areas of the product. They work together with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to solve common goals.

 

Gitaly is the Git data storage tier of GitLab, providing a reliable, secure and fast distributed Git data store over gRPC. For more information about Gitaly, see the team’s Direction page. 

Gitaly’s high-availability storage requires developers who understand distributed storage systems, their management, observability and availability. Cluster team contributes features, fixes bugs and improves performance of this software stack.

Currently, we're building a new distributed cluster solution and improvements to our Disaster Recovery readiness.

Responsibilities

 

Within the Gitaly team specifically, in this role, you will:

 

  • Participate in architectural discussions and decisions surrounding Gitaly.
  • Design RPC interfaces for the Gitaly service.
  • Scope, estimate and describe tasks to reach the team’s goals.
  • Develop Gitaly in accordance with the product’s goals.
  • Instrument, monitor and profile Gitaly in the production environment.
  • Build dashboards and alerts to monitor the health of your services.
  • Conduct acceptance testing of the features you’ve built.
  • Educate all team members on best practices relating to high availability.
  • Participate in architectural discussions and decisions surrounding Gitaly.
  • Write performant, maintainable, and elegant code and peer review others’ code.
  • Be positive and solution-oriented.
  • Constantly improve the quality & security of the product.
  • Take initiative in improving the software in small or large ways to address pain points in your own experience as a developer.
  • Qualify developers for hiring.
  • Respond to user emergencies, platform alerts and support requests, including regular on-call duties.

Requirements

  • Mandatory: proven professional experience building, debugging, optimizing software in large-scale, high-volume environments.
  • Mandatory: proven professional experience writing and testing high-quality code.
  • Mandatory: a good understanding of building instrumented, observable software systems.
  • Highly desirable: proven professional experience writing and testing quality code in Go.
  • Highly desirable: a good understanding of git’s internal data structures or experience running git servers.
  • Highly desirable: experience with gRPC.
  • Highly desirable: willingness to learn Ruby.
  • Highly desirable: experience running highly-available systems in production environments.
  • You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.

 

Avoid the confidence gap; you do not have to match all the listed requirements exactly to apply!

Compensation

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Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.

 

 


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